Will Alureon 'Internet Doomsday' virus cause net 'blackout' on Monday?

Charlee Gothard
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Government support servers for last November's virus attack shutting down on 9 July

Though the US government limited the damage from the Alureon DNS changer malware attack last November by setting up temporary servers to fix infected machines, those servers are due to be shut down...

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