Monday, July 9, 2012

July 9 issue of the Internet Apocalypse, Do not Panic But Stay Alert

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.

No comments:

Post a Comment