Windows users take note......

[vinnywright]

wife just showed me this one .........have a look

http://fox8.com/2012/07/06/virus-war...net-on-monday/

VINNY

[HalationEffect]

If a user accesses Facebook from a computer infected with DNS Changer malware, the site will display an alert with a link to a website that instructs users on how to remove the malware.

Training unsophisticated computer users to heed and obey what they read on a popup from a website... yeah, nothing bad could ever come from that.

The DNS-Changer malware control servers were shut down several months ago. Replacement DNS servers operated by the ISC have been serving the infected machines since then. IMO, the best way to have gone about notifying people with infected machines would have been for the ISC (and / or popular sites such as Google and Facebook) to have logged the IP addresses of said infected machines and forward that info to the relevant ISPs. The ISPs could then have sent out letters informing affected customers that their machines are infected, with instructions on how to clean their PCs.

(Edit) According to Wikipedia, something like that was supposed to have been done... but it is estimated that even after seven months, some 300,000 machines may still be infected.