DNSChanger malware set to kick 277,000 computers off the web Monday

. Anyone who hasn't scanned their computer for malware some time during the past year should seriously do so before this coming Monday. That's because the FBI estimates that roughly 277,000 computers worldwide - including 64,000 computers in the United States - will be knocked offline on July 9th due to a piece of malware that first started infecting PCs more than a year ago. Per The Associated Press, the malware in question was originally part of data-stealing scam that would rewrite machines' DNS information to reroute sensitive data traffic such as credit card information to hackers' servers.

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