If you have been watching the News recently you have probably seen a blurb on the DNS Changer Malware. This is a sleeper of a nasty bit of malware that may cause problems on Monday 7/9/2012.

It seems that Google, Yahoo and assorted Government agencies (FBI) have been aware of this malicious code for quite a while and have provided (completely in the background) a way for it not to effect the users of the Internet.

What this will do if you are infected is to deny you service to the Internet.

This is happening because the fix that was put in place to minimize the effects of the malware was to move it to some mirror servers. These servers will be shut off on Monday at 12:01 AM (Not sure of the time zone).

If you are infected you should see a warning bar at the top of the Google SERP pages. Yahoo also displays a warning. If you are in this field of IM, chances are you have seen this warning (and ignored it) or that you are not infected. That's the good news.

Here is a CNET report on the Malware. http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-57467164-12/what-the-dnschanger-malware-is-and-why-you-should-care-faq/

Here is a link to the verification software if you would like to confirm that you are uninfected:http://www.dcwg.org/detect/

Here's hoping that your system is clean and Green!