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I have seen several news reports that are trying to convince me to go to a particular website to have my computer checked for a "hacking" virus. The site is supposed to be run by the FBI in order to and end to a major hacking scheme on the internet. The threat is that if we all do not check our computers then we will be denied internet access as of July 9.
Is this really a legitimate excersize or some sort of scare. If I do not have my computer assessed by the FBI and I lose access there would have to be some mechanism to check each and every computer that tries to connect to the internet.
How are they going to know which machines were logged in? Are they tagging each computer? If they are tagging each computer then they will be able to backtrack and log every minute that each computer uses the internet.
Our Government and the UN have been talking about taxing the internet for a couple of years now. What a sneaky way to do it.
"YOUR COMPUTER WILL BLOW UP ON JULY 9 IF YOU DON'T COME TO OUR SITE AND LET US FIX IT!!!":rolleyes:
So you do and you are allowed on the internet. If you do not then you are not allowed. How do they know? By the use of an electronic tag that will be installed on each and every computer.
I know, I know I am paranoid but in this day of electronic skullduggery I can not help it.
Sorry, I have to go now. There is some guy in a black suit and dark glasses ringing my doorbell.
Bill V

I have not seen any information regarding the FBI and internet access but I could almost positively say that it is a scam to try and get money out of you. The scammers will 'prolly put something on your computer, then charge you to take it off.
I would not log onto any site that tells me I "have" to. Just my opinion but I would not want to get duped.
Tim.

Is this what you are talking about?

I would suggest that you at least read it so that you understand what they are claiming might happen and who the alleged bad guys are.

Here is what our paper said this morning.
http://www.kansas.com/2012/07/05/239791 ... newsletter

Joe;
My local paper had the same story. Word for word!!
After all the publicity about Y2K this seems to be flying under the radar.
Dusty;
I just get a bit overly sensitive when I hear "I'm from the Government and I am here to help" or "You have to pass the bill in order to see what's in it" or "it is definitely NOT a tax". Sorry but the G's record is not all that good.
Bill V

I had been watching this for a while. Like my dog I sneaked up to it and sniffed all around the edge... Then I did some searching and digging of my own and decided that it was not a scam (which does not guarantee that hackers won't try to use it for that) and checked my system. I was not sure about what the outcome would be since I run Linux but all seemed to run OK and it came up clean. I think that they just look for a few file names.
I always try to be reasonably careful but also try to avoid becoming part of the "Chicken Little" club or part of the tin-foil hat bunch.
I do not believe that the FBI or any of the government folks would try to send people to a stated FBI site to mess with their computers. If they wanted to hack something into your system it would be a 100 times easier to do so quietly through any one a thousand sites that almost everybody already visits almost daily.



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I asked this on another forum. I was told that when you do a Google search, and have the virus, you would receive a pop up window if your computer was infected.
Not sure how true that is but what I was told.

Tried it and you get either a green background or a red background. It was only a second.

About the Y2K, I spent many hours along with many other government workers correcting databases, rewriting them in another language, installing new computers with the compliant chips, testing to ensure that they would calculate the year 2000. In 1998 and 1999, many hours overtime for which I did not get paid since I was salaried, but we made sure that all our servers and desktops were compliant. I had about 26 databases to change. However Social Security, traffic lights and untilities moved the scale to do some calculations good for 10 years. Traffic controller systems are still out of date and sometimes, the stuff you hear in the news is directly related to the Y2K noncompliant systems. It was not a hoax. And, it was not limited to Microsoft software. Ashton Tate dBase II, III, III+, IV, Foxpro, Foxrun running on either Zenith DOS, Peachtree, IBM Dos or any of those programs had buried in the software memory fields with either a 9 or 99 causing them to fail on 1/1/2000. By 2000, we had eliminated all old DOS programs and had moved to Windows or SQL server programs. But, utility providers and Social Security and air traffic controllers need to get up to speed instead of the fudged stuff they did 12 years ago. So, if you find out from Social Security one day that you are dead and can still read the communique, just know it's still a glitch from Y2K not corrected. Thank God, we got most of it done. Then contractors came in with no bid contracts and who knows what they have done. They use no programmers as far as I know. The contractors use OTS software that is well programmed. I don't know what the rest of the military uses, but Navy/Marine Corp use all Microsoft.

swampgator wrote:Tried it and you get either a green background or a red background. It was only a second.

About the Y2K, I spent many hours along with many other government workers correcting databases, rewriting them in another language, installing new computers with the compliant chips, testing to ensure that they would calculate the year 2000. In 1998 and 1999, many hours overtime for which I did not get paid since I was salaried, but we made sure that all our servers and desktops were compliant. I had about 26 databases to change. However Social Security, traffic lights and untilities moved the scale to do some calculations good for 10 years. Traffic controller systems are still out of date and sometimes, the stuff you hear in the news is directly related to the Y2K noncompliant systems. It was not a hoax. And, it was not limited to Microsoft software. Ashton Tate dBase II, III, III+, IV, Foxpro, Foxrun running on either Zenith DOS, Peachtree, IBM Dos or any of those programs had buried in the software memory fields with either a 9 or 99 causing them to fail on 1/1/2000. By 2000, we had eliminated all old DOS programs and had moved to Windows or SQL server programs. But, utility providers and Social Security and air traffic controllers need to get up to speed instead of the fudged stuff they did 12 years ago. So, if you find out from Social Security one day that you are dead and can still read the communique, just know it's still a glitch from Y2K not corrected. Thank God, we got most of it done. Then contractors came in with no bid contracts and who knows what they have done. They use no programmers as far as I know. The contractors use OTS software that is well programmed. I don't know what the rest of the military uses, but Navy/Marine Corp use all Microsoft.

Y2K was good to me while it lasted. Companies were fighting each other to hire all the Contract Cobol programmers they could get their hands on so they could fix all their two digit year issues before the world came to an end. I was making $25,000 per month and flying my own airplane during those good years