The Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Response Team has stated that a computer virus has spread that effects the existence of the internet.

Once the virus infects a computer, it automatically changes the computer’s settings while it directs the users to several unintended and illegal sites, the Response Team stated while adding that pc users can protect themselves from this virus by visiting http://www.dcwg.org/detect

However, no complaints have been received by the Response Team as yet.

The American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will block internet services in over 350,000 personal computers across the world - including 80,000 in US and 20,000 in Britain - after they were infected with the invisible and undetectable Trojan computer virus, IANS reported.

The “internet blackout” will take place July 9, the Daily Mail reported while no computer infected with the virus would be able to log in to the internet.

The virus called “DNS Changer” is reported to have originally emerged in Estonia while the FBI detected the infection and had set up temporary servers to keep the infected computers working but reports claimed that the effort was too costly.

The temporary servers were created to allow companies to remove the worm from their infected servers and those affected had 120 days to get rid of themalware.

Following the FBI warnings, the number of computers infected with the virus plunged while now most are in the hands of private individuals, not companies. (AdaDerana)