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Internet ‘doomsday’ virus caused ‘no significant outages’

The so-called Internet doomsday virus with the potential to black out tens of thousands of computers worldwide appeared to pose no major problems Monday in the first hours after a fix expired. Security firms reported no significant outages linked to the DNS Changer virus, as many Internet service providers have…

Internet blackout looms for thousands

Tens of thousands of people around the world whose computers were infected with malware last year may lose their Internet access when a US government fix expires, security experts say. The problem stems from malware known as DNS Changer, which was created by cybercriminals to redirect Internet traffic by hijacking…