Not many were left without internet when the FBI pulled its plug on the temporary safety net it had set up to keep infected computers online for the past 8 months. The malware, called the DNS Changer, had infected over 250,000 computers around the world, and nearly 64,000 computers in America were expected to have been infected by the virus.

The DNS Changer was created by international hackers in an advertising scam last year, leading the infected computers to their malicious servers. However, when the FBI caught onto them, they realized that the thousands of computers infected by the virus would lose internet connection if they pulled the plug on the malicious servers. So they set up brand new clean servers to serve as a temporary fix to keep the computers online.

But on July 9 12.01a.m., the plug was pulled from the temporary servers, and thousands were warned to make sure they were not infected with the virus in the days prior to the "Monday Internet Doomsday."

However, since the beginning of this year, Internet Service Providers such as Comcast, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable, have been working to help spot the infected computers and helping users to remove the DNS Malware.

If you own one of the few unfortunate computers infected by the virus and your internet has been cut off, be sure to contact your ISP if you have not done so yet.

FBI-approved website "The DNS Changer Working Group (DCWG)" was created to help fix problems caused by viruses created by hackers the FBI discovered last November. The DCWG helps monitor new DNS servers under court order, in the former Rove Digital space.

According to their website, the DCWG is a group of experts, and includes members from organizations such as Georgia Tech, Internet Systems Consortium, Mandiant, National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance, Trend Micro, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The threat has now passed and no significant loss of internet was reported. Although the DNS Changer malware has been grabbing the headlines for the past week, let's not forget that there are far more malicious malware out there that can take control of your computer.