Facebook begins notifying DNSChanger victims
Summary: Facebook is beginning to notify DNSChanger victims using the world's most popular social network.
Following Google's recently launched initiative aiming to notify DNSChanger victims, Facebook is also following the example and is beginning to notify victims using the world's most popular social network.
The partnership between Facebook's Product Security Team and the DNSChanger Working Group aims to reach out to the tens of thousands of users still infected with the DNSChanger malware, as they risk losing Internet connectivity on July 9, 2012 when the temporary severs maintaining the infrastructure will be shut down.
You can also check whether you're infected with the DNSChanger malware, by using the DNS Changer Check Up Service, instead of waiting for Google or Facebook to issue you an alert.
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Nice idea, but...
Facebook suffers from too many messages (game requests, suggested friends, advertisements, other app requests, you name it) to be a viable delivery system for news like this. Long-time users have learned through years of annoyance to simply ignore anything that doesn't come directly from a friend, and treat those posts with skepticism as well.
agree...but...
bah, humbug. More tech support calls for me.
Chances are, on July 10, there will be a whole bunch of purchases of cheap computers from the local discount store. And thousands of computers dumped in the trash heap.