F.K.O:

including russian and chinese ? U cant be serious

No need for us to argue about this. the US started the Internet and control all the core DNS and routing servers. Other countries have control of their networks but all the core servers that run the Internet are controlled by the US. You can research that if you like.

It seems to be true or just a coincidence. I lost my home network because it has be intersected for no reason. The service provider has not being able to provide better solution yet they keep reconfiguring my router PPP without success.

I am using my old internet service provider on Linux to browse and do my internet works at the moment.I would have to do some research to verify this.

Whizkay: Dis is a lie na..abeg, do u kno how much dia economy ll lose on dat day alone if dis shud apen...an economy where money lives online( cashless tinz)

GOOD THINKING

dejiswaggs: na dem get internet ni Abi bomb dey der head ni

ℓ☺ℓ.....

mekaboy: THEY WANT TO SYNCHRONIZE ALL THE DATABASES ONLINE INCLUDING THE SOCIAL NETWORKS, TO GATHER INFORMATION ABOUT EVERYONE WHO,S DETAILS ARE ONLINE TO ENABLE THEM FIND THOSE WHO WILL REFUSE THE MARK OF THE BEAST "666" WHICH WILL SOON BE INTRODUCED.

THEY HAVE USED FACEBOOK , YAHOO, TWITTER AND OTHER SITES TO GET ALMOST THE WHOLE WORLD ONLINE, ITS TIME FOR THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE INTERNET TO BE REVEALED.

IF YOU ARE READING THIS MESSAGE NOW, ITS TOO LATE, THEY HAVE YOUR DETAILS ALREADY, IF U REFUSE THE MARK OF THE ANTI- CHRIST, YOU WILL BE FOUND EASILY. OBAMA HAS ACCEPTED GAY MARRIAGE-----> CASHLESS SOCIETY----------> 666 IS NEXT.

tell me someτнing...? Ђoω sure rε ўσu bout τнis..? Getting it twisted o!!!!

And to imagine that this nonsense made the front page

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There was a rumour about the Fbi's proposal to wiretap all internet activity in order to check terrorism, but human rights activists refused because they saw it as an abuse and of course private multinationals saw it as a danger to trade secrets,maybe the fbi finally got approval.

But linux should be safe?? Why??

toideve: Do they own the internet

~Bluetooth:


no,philip emeagwali does.

Gbam!!

To "clean" servers? Hmmmm? We are watching and waiting. And what if it's true or not? I don't wanna be caught in the middle. #PlanBSearchModeActivated

O.K

Another rumor

IT'S ALL A LIAR, A BIG ONE FOR THAT. OK WATCH AND SEE

pls explain more on this why is it the fbi or how are sure they are trying to hack the internet.

Hmmmm...Has anyone taken the time out to actually read the link the in the OP's post?

Let me break it down a bit:
1. No, the internet isn't going to be shut down!
2. No, the US/FBI don't solely control the internet. There is a consortium (nations and professional bodies) that issue "standards" and the name resolutions

Any government, in a country with properly routed internet access, can effectively "flip the switch" to the internet in its region (eg: China, Iran, Egypt have done it before and are currently filtering access rights to its citizenry)

Back to the topic on ground: Internet works with what is known as "name resolution" where you can type in, say "www.nairaland.com" from anywhere and you system gets to access the contents off a server located in Seun's backyard. How does your system know where to find Seun's servers? This question is answered by "Name Servers" (DNS: Domain Name Servers), where all server addresses are registered. There are thousands of "authenticated DNS servers" globally.

However, some miscreants/hackers whipped up a " DNSchanger vrius" that re-routes requests from infected machines to their own Name servers. Thus, say when you want to access "www.nairaland.com" from an infected PC, it sends you to their own server, where they can poison your request and/or steal your information and/or pipe web ads to you (ultimately raking in cash for them).

What the FBI is doing is shutting down these "rogue Name servers" run by the hackers....thus, if your system is infected (note that infected systems will ALWAYS send internet requests to these servers), you won't have access to the internet anymore once they are shutdown.

Security firms such as Symantec, Kaspersky and a host of others, even the FBI, have developed free removal tools for this virus...Here's the link to the FBI's own: DNS Checker Page

In summary, INTERNET ACCESS ON ONLY INFECTED SYSTEMS WOULD BE EFFECTIVELY SHUTDOWN! Millions of computer are infected and they dont even know they are!!!
Google it up...its no hoax!

I think it wud be a bad experience

Nl, u believe it or not it is true that the internet is control by one source and must be a super power,Note, in the last day he - THE WORLD LEADER - anti christ ll use it to sensor information,accounts - Cashless,account number digit to 10 figures univerally etc n then the mark of the best ll be unvail for transaction. If the internet will short down or not i can say but be aware we are the last days.. Be prepared for the Rapture. Soon all media houses radio or tv will go digitalized n will also be host by a super power n all information will be sensored.

they act as fi they own errfin, am jez scared of ll my shadeyz, dey beta not america is takin 2 much

mekaboy: THEY WANT TO SYNCHRONIZE ALL THE DATABASES ONLINE INCLUDING THE SOCIAL NETWORKS, TO GATHER INFORMATION ABOUT EVERYONE WHO,S DETAILS ARE ONLINE TO ENABLE THEM FIND THOSE WHO WILL REFUSE THE MARK OF THE BEAST "666" WHICH WILL SOON BE INTRODUCED.

THEY HAVE USED FACEBOOK , YAHOO, TWITTER AND OTHER SITES TO GET ALMOST THE WHOLE WORLD ONLINE, ITS TIME FOR THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE INTERNET TO BE REVEALED.

[b]IF YOU ARE READING THIS MESSAGE NOW, ITS TOO LATE, THEY HAVE YOUR DETAILS ALREADY, IF U REFUSE THE MARK OF THE ANTI- CHRIST, YOU WILL BE FOUND EASILY. OBAMA HAS ACCEPTED GAY MARRIAGE-----> CASHLESS SOCIETY----------> 666 IS NEXT. [/b]

This is so funny.

Ok, I know you will refuse the mark...and since you are online posting this message, in your own words, "Its too late, they have your details already", and "You will be found"!!

One advice @mekaboy, Run bro! Run!!!

hey, to the poster of this topic, read before you generalize a total internet outage thus causing unnecessary panic

WASHINGTON (AP) — For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer.

Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual response, the FBI set up a safety net months ago using government computers to prevent Internet disruptions for those infected users. But that system is to be shut down.

The FBI is encouraging users to visit a website run by its security partner, http://www.dcwg.org , that will inform them whether they're infected and explain how to fix the problem. After July 9, infected users won't be able to connect to the Internet.

Most victims don't even know their computers have been infected, although the malicious software probably has slowed their web surfing and disabled their antivirus software, making their machines more vulnerable to other problems.

Last November, the FBI and other authorities were preparing to take down a hacker ring that had been running an Internet ad scam on a massive network of infected computers.

"We started to realize that we might have a little bit of a problem on our hands because ... if we just pulled the plug on their criminal infrastructure and threw everybody in jail, the victims of this were going to be without Internet service," said Tom Grasso, an FBI supervisory special agent. "The average user would open up Internet Explorer and get 'page not found' and think the Internet is broken."

On the night of the arrests, the agency brought in Paul Vixie, chairman and founder of Internet Systems Consortium, to install two Internet servers to take the place of the truckload of impounded rogue servers that infected computers were using. Federal officials planned to keep their servers online until March, giving everyone opportunity to clean their computers. But it wasn't enough time. A federal judge in New York extended the deadline until July.

Now, said Grasso, "the full court press is on to get people to address this problem." And it's up to computer users to check their PCs.

This is what happened:

Hackers infected a network of probably more than 570,000 computers worldwide. They took advantage of vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows operating system to install malicious software on the victim computers. This turned off antivirus updates and changed the way the computers reconcile website addresses behind the scenes on the Internet's domain name system.

The DNS system is a network of servers that translates a web address — such as www.ap.org — into the numerical addresses that computers use. Victim computers were reprogrammed to use rogue DNS servers owned by the attackers. This allowed the attackers to redirect computers to fraudulent versions of any website.

The hackers earned profits from advertisements that appeared on websites that victims were tricked into visiting. The scam netted the hackers at least $14 million, according to the FBI. It also made thousands of computers reliant on the rogue servers for their Internet browsing.

When the FBI and others arrested six Estonians last November, the agency replaced the rogue servers with Vixie's clean ones. Installing and running the two substitute servers for eight months is costing the federal government about $87,000.

The number of victims is hard to pinpoint, but the FBI believes that on the day of the arrests, at least 568,000 unique Internet addresses were using the rogue servers. Five months later, FBI estimates that the number is down to at least 360,000. The U.S. has the most, about 85,000, federal authorities said. Other countries with more than 20,000 each include Italy, India, England and Germany. Smaller numbers are online in Spain, France, Canada, China and Mexico.

Vixie said most of the victims are probably individual home users, rather than corporations that have technology staffs who routinely check the computers.

FBI officials said they organized an unusual system to avoid any appearance of government intrusion into the Internet or private computers. And while this is the first time the FBI used it, it won't be the last.

"This is the future of what we will be doing," said Eric Strom, a unit chief in the FBI's Cyber Division. "Until there is a change in legal system, both inside and outside the United States, to get up to speed with the cyber problem, we will have to go down these paths, trail-blazing if you will, on these types of investigations."

Now, he said, every time the agency gets near the end of a cyber case, "we get to the point where we say, how are we going to do this, how are we going to clean the system" without creating a bigger mess than before.

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Online:

To check and clean computers: http://www.dcwg.org

Maleeq: Hmmmm...Has anyone taken the time out to actually read the link the in the OP's post?

Let me break it down a bit:
1. No, the internet isn't going to be shut down!
2. No, the US/FBI don't solely control the internet. There is a consortium (nations and professional bodies) that issue "standards" and the name resolutions

Any government, in a country with properly routed internet access, can effectively "flip the switch" to the internet in its region (eg: China, Iran, Egypt have done it before and are currently filtering access rights to its citizenry)

Back to the topic on ground: Internet works with what is known as "name resolution" where you can type in, say "www.nairaland.com" from anywhere and you system gets to access the contents off a server located in Seun's backyard. How does your system know where to find Seun's servers? This question is answered by "Name Servers" (DNS: Domain Name Servers), where all server addresses are registered. There are thousands of "authenticated DNS servers" globally.

However, some miscreants/hackers whipped up a " DNSchanger vrius" that re-routes requests from infected machines to their own Name servers. Thus, say when you want to access "www.nairaland.com" from an infected PC, it sends you to their own server, where they can poison your request and/or steal your information and/or pipe web ads to you (ultimately raking in cash for them).


What the FBI is doing is shutting down these "rogue Name servers" run by the hackers....thus, if your system is infected (note that infected systems will ALWAYS send internet requests to these servers), you won't have access to the internet anymore once they are shutdown.

Security firms such as Symantec, Kaspersky and a host of others, even the FBI, have developed free removal tools for this virus...Here's the link to the FBI's own: DNS Checker Page

In summary, INTERNET ACCESS ON ONLY INFECTED SYSTEMS WOULD BE EFFECTIVELY SHUTDOWN! Millions of computer are infected and they don't even know they are!!!
Google it up...its no hoax!

I was just about to explain this as well.... People learn to read properly before making rash conclusions.
The only thing i can add is that the FBI has taken down the "rogue servers". "When the FBI and others arrested six Estonians last November, the agency replaced the rogue servers with Vixie's clean ones. Installing and running the two substitute servers for eight months is costing the US federal government about $87,000."
Which is why they've decided to take them down.

Maleeq: Hmmmm...Has anyone taken the time out to actually read the link the in the OP's post?

Let me break it down a bit:
1. No, the internet isn't going to be shut down!
2. No, the US/FBI don't solely control the internet. There is a consortium (nations and professional bodies) that issue "standards" and the name resolutions

Any government, in a country with properly routed internet access, can effectively "flip the switch" to the internet in its region (eg: China, Iran, Egypt have done it before and are currently filtering access rights to its citizenry)

Back to the topic on ground: Internet works with what is known as "name resolution" where you can type in, say "www.nairaland.com" from anywhere and you system gets to access the contents off a server located in Seun's backyard. How does your system know where to find Seun's servers? This question is answered by "Name Servers" (DNS: Domain Name Servers), where all server addresses are registered. There are thousands of "authenticated DNS servers" globally.

However, some miscreants/hackers whipped up a " DNSchanger vrius" that re-routes requests from infected machines to their own Name servers. Thus, say when you want to access "www.nairaland.com" from an infected PC, it sends you to their own server, where they can poison your request and/or steal your information and/or pipe web ads to you (ultimately raking in cash for them).

What the FBI is doing is shutting down these "rogue Name servers" run by the hackers....thus, if your system is infected (note that infected systems will ALWAYS send internet requests to these servers), you won't have access to the internet anymore once they are shutdown.

Security firms such as Symantec, Kaspersky and a host of others, even the FBI, have developed free removal tools for this virus...Here's the link to the FBI's own: DNS Checker Page

In summary, INTERNET ACCESS ON ONLY INFECTED SYSTEMS WOULD BE EFFECTIVELY SHUTDOWN! Millions of computer are infected and they dont even know they are!!!
Google it up...its no hoax!

This I doubt not but I believe they are not telling us the real reason why they are doing it just as UN is piloting us into Armageddon. They are all wolves in sheep clothings.

when was this announced? why the shut down? how long is it going to last?

IMPOSSIBLE

The internet is made up of billions of computers connected together, ISPs can be shutdown, not the internet.

Post like this to me is big time wash nau. It is impossible. I think the punk want visitors on his blog that is why he put up something like this. Mtchewwww

NL should mind the kinda rumor they post here.

TAAA !!! who said so. BIG LIE

Is dis real, is it gonn
aappen