FBI sets July 9 deadline to clean DNSChanger malware

It is so easy to fall victim to malware, anti-viruse programs are useless. I recently realized I had a svchost.exe clone running in my background that was using up to 60% of my CPU and downloading/uploading to the internet constantly up to 5 MB/s. I reformatted and now svchost never takes more than 2% of my i7 CPU, and my internet browsing is noticeably faster. Not only that but it was redirecting my google search results so that whenever I clicked a link from the google search results it would go to a different site, which was usually some ad, maybe with some kind of DNS changer. This virus was undetected by current versions of AVG, Avira, or MSE. I only found out because I was sick of slow internet speeds and when I was looking at my network activity and svchost activity when I was performing no actions and I was like WTF. 10 system restarts and tons of debugging and antivirus tools later I decided screw I'll just reformat.

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Originally posted by SmaryJerry:

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It is so easy to fall victim to malware, anti-viruse programs are useless. I recently realized I had a svchost.exe clone running in my background that was using up to 60% of my CPU and downloading/uploading to the internet constantly up to 5 MB/s. I reformatted and now svchost never takes more than 2% of my i7 CPU, and my internet browsing is noticeably faster. Not only that but it was redirecting my google search results so that whenever I clicked a link from the google search results it would go to a different site, which was usually some ad, maybe with some kind of DNS changer. This virus was undetected by current versions of AVG, Avira, or MSE. I only found out because I was sick of slow internet speeds and when I was looking at my network activity and svchost activity when I was performing no actions and I was like WTF. 10 system restarts and tons of debugging and antivirus tools later I decided screw I'll just reformat.

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What i Hate is how the media is saying that it is done by a group of hackers. Nope this is a corporation's doing Not no teens. Your tax $$$ at work. But F.B.I Are just as stupid as ever.