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07-07-2012, 06:34 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
Posts: 1,049
|  Are you ready for the Internet blackout?
Looks like we may be having withdrawals Monday. News this morning says half the internets gonna be unavailable! I'm not sure what I'm gonna do? Actually build something instead of watching others build, get outside, or ?
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07-07-2012, 08:07 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
Posts: 2,552
| Re: Are you ready for the Internet blackout?
I've gotta work, hopefully we don't need it to look up rc parts for customers.
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07-07-2012, 08:28 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Castle Rock, WA
Posts: 8,785
| Re: Are you ready for the Internet blackout?
Doing a quick Google search renders that the "blackout" will only affect computers infected with the DNSCharger malware. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...er-going-dark/ |
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07-07-2012, 08:29 AM
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| PapaGriz Yo   Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the garage building the wife a crawler
Posts: 13,137
| Re: Are you ready for the Internet blackout?
Which half of the internet will be down? If it's the porn half I know some people who will be very disappointed.  |
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07-07-2012, 08:36 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Roseburg
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Im not worried about my machine, im worried about the other 2,000 machines in my town that will probably be coming into the computer shop i work at. Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk 2 |
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07-07-2012, 09:06 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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Haha the porn half. Not sure it's exact meaning by "half the Internet will be down" but what little I did see on the news the FBI will be disconnecting a ton of servers for a short while to work on the problem. Pretty big deal. My idea is that a lot of sites will be down. Who knows maybe it'll be no issue for us. Feel sorry for pc techs like one member mentioned. |
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07-07-2012, 09:44 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Castle Rock, WA
Posts: 8,785
| Re: Are you ready for the Internet blackout?
There are about 300,000 computers WORLDWIDE still effected by the DNSCharger malware. There will only be issues for those computers. |
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07-07-2012, 09:51 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jacksonville Illinois
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Heck that's not bad at all. I shoulda known news blowing stuff all out of proportion.
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07-07-2012, 10:16 AM
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| Rock Crawler  Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: E. City
Posts: 883
| Re: Are you ready for the Internet blackout?
You can check to see if you are infected here: DNS Changer Check-Up - Clean |
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07-07-2012, 11:45 AM
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| Gold Star Baby Momma! Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Maumelle, Ar
Posts: 713
| Re: Are you ready for the Internet blackout?
My e weinis is clean of teh dns stds according to that website!!!!
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07-07-2012, 12:17 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 16,952
| Re: Are you ready for the Internet blackout?
I think I am ready. I have been stockpiling internet for the past 6 months and plan to shoot any person who comes within 1/2mi of my house.
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07-07-2012, 12:22 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Houston
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| Re: Are you ready for the Internet blackout? Quote:
 Probably one of your best posts ever.
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07-07-2012, 12:38 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
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07-07-2012, 06:59 PM
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| PapaGriz Yo Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the garage building the wife a crawler
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LMFAO!!Just don't eat the people, you'll get the shakes. Eat cats, that what I plan to do. | |
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07-07-2012, 07:03 PM
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| Adilynsdad too!   Join Date: May 2004 Location: G ville
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| Re: Are you ready for the Internet blackout?
Is that some more of that Obama care bull dookie I've been hearing about?
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07-07-2012, 07:49 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2008 Location: Baltimore
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07-07-2012, 08:27 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Pa
Posts: 563
| Re: Are you ready for the Internet blackout?
Mine comes up green. Won't have to go into the porn reserves on monday. Now I can sleep better. |
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07-07-2012, 09:16 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
Posts: 2,552
| Re: Are you ready for the Internet blackout?
My phone comes up green, may have to check out the antique Dell tomorrow too.
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07-07-2012, 10:33 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Yelm
Posts: 1,643
| Re: Are you ready for the Internet blackout?
I clicked that link, and my computer screen started shooting multi-colored rays all over my house, and cookies with bites out of them started falling up from the ground.  |
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07-07-2012, 10:51 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: We-Go, Chi-Town, Ill
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