DNS Changer Malware: What you need to know

Long story short, there's a fairly significant piece of malware making the rounds that threatens to cut tens of thousands of infected computers - and their owners - off of the Internet on Monday, July 9. It's called DNS Changer, and it's getting a lot of media attention in advance of Monday. The hackers responsible for the infection have been caught and charged, but the network that the FBI set up allowing infected users to continue to use the Internet will be shut down on Monday - hence all this attention.

I've put together a quick list of helpful links here - and will be speaking about this issue with a number of radio stations today, including Newstalk 1010 in Toronto and CJAD in Montreal. Please feel free to suggest your own in a comment, or tweet it to me at @carmilevy. Or hit up my Facebook page at facebook.com/carmi. Thanks! Here goes:

• Toronto Star article by Francine Kopun
• WhatsYourTech.ca article by Ted Kritsonis
• Check if you're infected: http://www.dns-ok.us/ or here: http://www.mcafee.com/dnscheck 
• Check if you're infected - in Canada! http://dns-ok.ca/
• Clean things up if you're infected: http://www.dcwg.org/fix/
• Information for Rogers customers
• Information for Bell customers
• Microsoft Safety Scanner - a free Windows tool directly from Microsoft
• Background for Mac owners - sorry, folks, no one's 100% immune
• Background from the Government of Canada (from Nov. 2011) http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/em/ccirc/2011/in11-002-eng.aspx
• Overview from Symantec