Every once in awhile, a message “goes viral” on email, internet and sometimes even by word-of-mouth, announcing some strange phenomenon, oftentimes a computer virus.   And most of the time, if you do a bit of research, using websites such as snopes.com, you’ll find that the content of the message is a hoax that is just clogging up your inbox.

In any event, this weekend there is another message circulating, this time about the DNS Changer Malware, but it’s NOT a hoax.   And if your computer, tablet or phone is infected, from 09 July 2012 you won’t be able to access the Internet.

David, from Computer Problems? I Can Help gives a brief synopsis of the issue and explains what users should do to ensure they are free of the DNS Changer:

SYNOPSIS:

Go to the website: www.dns-ok.us.

If however, you see a RED image, “DNS Resolution = RED”, you are “infected” and you will need to clean your computer.

If you’d like to contact David, email david@zicount.com, call him on +41.79.783.09.90 or Skype him at davidnitzsche-bell and he’ll walk you through the fix (which takes about 2-5 minutes, but due to variations between different versions of Windows and Mac and whether you are connected wirelessly or by a cable (or both!), it’s not feasible to put together a simple follow-these-simple-steps for the fix).