From his kitchen to yours, Mountain Home resident Joe Howard will share his favorite recipes with his readers. Sometimes I might just stray from the recipes and share my other 2 cents.

"Beware of malware and the internet Monday"

Posted Friday, July 6, 2012, at 6:37 AM

Doesn't look like a large number but its been around so long and it doesn't appear to be a way to remove it if you have it.

http://news.yahoo.com/malware-may-knock-thousands-off-internet-monday-check-1920...

There are free downloads to remove malware and spyware.

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I checked mine out and got a green light.

If you don't trust the Government then don't click on it. :>)

This is the link channel 7 news gave out last night

FBI: http://www.dcwg.org

-- Posted by MsMarylin on Fri, Jul 6, 2012, at 8:36 AM
MsM, you mean that terrible intrusive government that kept everyone in the US that was infected online?

-- Posted by royincaldwell on Fri, Jul 6, 2012, at 12:51 PM
yup that one Roy!!

Joe I'm surprised your friend didn't catch the mistake in your title, or maybe she did and that's why you fixed it...

-- Posted by MsMarylin on Fri, Jul 6, 2012, at 2:28 PM
MsM:

I think he can spell. Of coarse,(course)most of us can.

-- Posted by KH Gal on Fri, Jul 6, 2012, at 6:41 PM
Yes I know Joe can spell, I never said he couldn't...

I've known Joe at least 30 years, we shared some fun times together with friends and spouses.

-- Posted by MsMarylin on Fri, Jul 6, 2012, at 7:39 PM
I guess someday I will grow up to be so perfect and not make any mistakes. My topic line did have a mistake, I had a couple of thoughts in mind at the time and missed both of them. Nobody had to correct me I saw it when I logged back in after the post and fixed it. My whole point was what was in the body of the blog and that was to warn people about the malware, which I knew about a week prior and also knew about the link a couple of days prior to the posting. I guess its easier to point out a problem than to really pay attention to whats it about. If after midnite tonight your internet goes down tough you were warned but I won't be doing that again in the near future. The link dcwg is not all that great either, you can have the malware on your PC and it will tell you, you are ok but the malware is still there. That malware problem has been out for over a year just waiting for the hackers to strike.

Thanks KH gal for standing up for me, it was implied I couldn't get things right but guess I not as perfect as others.

-- Posted by Eagle_eye on Sun, Jul 8, 2012, at 7:47 PM
I wonder if formatting the hard drive will fix the problem? It seems like it would since you are deleting and re-installing the registry with a new DNS address. I hope it happens to my work computer, I hope it happens to my work computer! LOL j/k

-- Posted by KentuckyTransplant on Sun, Jul 8, 2012, at 10:09 PM
All good on the home PC. I don't think it would have caused me too much trouble anyway. I'm a Y2K survivor, I can handle anything :)

-- Posted by KentuckyTransplant on Sun, Jul 8, 2012, at 10:31 PM
I'm sorry Joe if someone was implying you couldn't get things right? I guess I will find out tomorrow if the dcwg site worked for me.

-- Posted by MsMarylin on Sun, Jul 8, 2012, at 11:36 PM
Actually MsM, the fact that you were able to post your comment at the time you did says you are safe. If infected, you would have had no internet access after 10pm our time :)

-- Posted by KentuckyTransplant on Mon, Jul 9, 2012, at 12:19 AM
We could only hope. Joe, you are perfect and colorful. Thank you for the email. I did not know about this. Hope you have your net in the a.m.

-- Posted by OpinionMissy on Mon, Jul 9, 2012, at 12:41 AM
I'm good too...and thank you Joe for the warning, you are so nearly perfect it's Scary!

Don't you worry because I would "of" still said you're perfect of "coarse"!!!!

Jessie

-- Posted by jessiemiller on Sat, Jul 14, 2012, at 9:55 PM

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