Internet Doomsday News Today

>> im ashleigh banfield. good to have ali here all week. in the battle over the bush-era tax cuts, playing politics with your takehome pay and nothing hort of the presidency is on the line here. if the two parties cant agree on extending those tax cuts by the end of the year, a typical american family making $70,000 a year could get hit with a tax increase of $3,000. that is a lot of pain. right now house republicans are busy crafting a plan to extend those tax cuts for everyone acro...

Their computers because of a computer virus affecting more than half a million pcs. rick leventhal live in new york city. we talked a lot about heading into the weekend and programs people needed to employ in order to evade this. how is going, rick? >> reporter: so far better than it could have been. some are calling it an internet doomsday. it is bad but truth is you could have been a lot worse. if you have no internet today, sometime over the past few years you inadvertently download ad virus ...

>> reporter: more than 200,000 wordwide will have to use their telephones or get from their desk to communicate or do business. no web access whatsoever. this is the internet doomsday. millions of ice downloaded a virus that redirected computers to rogue web sites that stole personal data like credit card numbers. the fbi review thed the computers to a clean server. the good news is the number of people affected heed the advice, got help before last nights midnight deadline, including dozens of ...

its 5:00 a.m. in the east. this is cnn breaking news. >> we begin this morning with breaking news. we have learned that president obama is holding a big event at the white house rose garden later today to resurrect the battle over the bush tax cuts. he will be surrounded by working class americans while he calls on congress to extend tax cuts for everyone, making $250,000 a year or less. republicans want the tax cuts extended for everyone, the wealthy included. the white house will b...

Are pointing fingers of blame. we have reaction from both sides of the aisle. >>shannon: and now what some are calling an internet doomsday. a danger to your ability to access the internet. thousands face a threat of being left off line tomorrow and now the f.b.i. has a website telling americans how to keep their computers safe. and now like from new york with more. >>reporter: scores of interpret users could wake up to an unwelcome surprise tomorrow if their computers were infected with a parti...

Could cut a lot of people off from the internet tomorrow. theyre calling this a "internet doomsday" but the f.b.i. has set up a web site telling all of us how to keep our computers safe. laura ingal live with the very latest. what are we going to do? >> hi, eric. thousands of internet uses across the u.s. could wake up to an unwelcomed surprise tomorrow if their computers were infected with malicious software finding themselves unable to check e-mail, pay bills on line or surf the web. now, the ...

To control the computers, all the victims would lose internet service. so the f.b.i. set up temporary servers while agents continued their investigation so users infected could still use the internet but that safety net expires tonight at midnight which has led to what many people are calling, as you said, internet doomsday or malware monday but you have time to check your computer. the f.b.i. arranged for a private company to run a web site where users can see if their computers are compromised...

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