QUINCY, ILL. -- Hundreds of thousands of Internet users whose computers are infected with a particularly nasty virus will be unable to access the Web starting on Monday.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation will shut down Internet servers that it temporarily set up to support those affected by malicious software, called DNSChanger. Turning off those servers will knock all those still infected offline.
If you have one of the three hundred thousand computers infected with it, you will lose internet access after 12 p.m. Monday.
The virus was released in 2007. Last year, the FBI caught the ring of hackers that created it, but the virus remains active.
The virus redirects your internet searches to bogus websites. You can read more about the virus here.
But there's an easy fix to the problem.
"You can go onto dcwg.org and it will tell you if bad things are happening to your computer and you can get that taken care of before Monday," Eric Thomas, owner of ETC Computerland, in Quincy said. "Other things you can do is take your computer to any repair center and they can install anti-virus software in your computer."
The virus effects both Macs and PCs.
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