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ATTENTION Google and GMAIL users: Apparently Google and Gmail are being targeted by some exceedingly l33t hackers. These keyboard ninjas have rendered Google and GMAIL inaccessible to users. When attempting to load any Google-related content or application, they either see a blank white page with '0' in the top left corner, or are prompted to accept a certificate with the delightfully fake name of "Kitchensinks.n0t". Almost all affected users have AOL as their ISP, but all OS have been affected.
I, too, have been affected. Neither GMAIL nor Google will load. Fortunately, this does not appear to be a virus, but a DNS attack on either Google or AOL. However, if you should receive an email from me on my Gmail account, delete it, because it's not from me. I haven't sent an email from Gmail to anyone on my flist.
For the tech savvy among my flist, there is a fix going around that can be found here in the post by Avant Guardian. I haven't tried it for fear that such tinkering in my old computer's brains with my neophyte hands would give it a catastrophic gran mal and leave it a smoldering heap.
Eventually Ad Aware will produce a patch, but until then, I'll be using Scroogle.org(and you really want to note that org, oh, yes, you do.)
I, too, have been affected. Neither GMAIL nor Google will load. Fortunately, this does not appear to be a virus, but a DNS attack on either Google or AOL. However, if you should receive an email from me on my Gmail account, delete it, because it's not from me. I haven't sent an email from Gmail to anyone on my flist.
For the tech savvy among my flist, there is a fix going around that can be found here in the post by Avant Guardian. I haven't tried it for fear that such tinkering in my old computer's brains with my neophyte hands would give it a catastrophic gran mal and leave it a smoldering heap.
Eventually Ad Aware will produce a patch, but until then, I'll be using Scroogle.org(and you really want to note that org, oh, yes, you do.)
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