Communication
and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring urged Internet users in
Indonesia does not need to panic with the issue of internet doomsday
July 9, 2012. But people still asked to be vigilant and check the computer and networking equipment are used.
"I
would say it is not true in the sense that the issue will be massive
congestion internet network in Indonesia, tomorrow July 9, 2012", said
in a press release to Tifatul detikINET, Monday (07/08/2012).
Tifatul confirmed, was about 4 years ago had a massive attack on Estonia Trojan virus. This incident involving the FBI to the United States to investigate the incident, until the creation of a new anti virus.
"The
FBI had released the 25 countries at high risk of contracting a Trojan,
but Indonesia is not included in the list. Most outbreaks in European
countries and America," explained Tifatul.
Tifatul
added that in Indonesia alone had done the research by a virus
researcher, and not the discovery of the Trojan virus growth.
"Do
not panic, but should remain vigilant, scan and clean their computer,
do not open any link submissions from persons unknown," said Tifatul
warned.
A number of internet users anxiously awaiting the arrival of the center July 9, 2012. Because, on the Internet network in several countries around the world rumored to be dead. This phenomenon is so-called 'doomsday internet'.
This
excitement stems from the so-called DNSCharger malware attack, a
malicious program that is able to manipulate the Domain Name System
(DNS) on a computer that has menjangkitinya. The danger past again in November 2011 this virus has been known to infect hundreds of thousands of computers around the world.
Well,
to eradicate the virus, the FBI plans to shut down a server that is
used to manipulate the DNS fake on the victim's computer. Before
the mop-up action will be held on March 8, 2012, but for the sake of
minimizing the impact, the execution be delayed until July 9, 2012.
As a result, the excitement will crippled internet connection was back to being the talk of the netter. DetikINET monitoring, at various online forums the country were quite many posts that come to enliven the issue.
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