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Exactly. Route all DNS queries to your page saying "You've been infected by malware, which we fixed, but now you have to change your DNS pointers or have someb
by Vivtek 14y ago
Exactly. Route all DNS queries to your page saying "You've been infected by malware, which we fixed, but now you have to change your DNS pointers or have somebody else fix them".
If I can think of that in two seconds, why can't the FBI?
- Chlorus 14y agoThis was brought up a while ago, and the reason it was shot down was that no one wants to condition users into taking advice from random web pages. Think of all the 'you've been infected! download anti-virus 2012 pro!' pop-ups that infest the net.
- nodata 14y agoMy proposal: 1. Use SSL ("check for the padlock") 2. Use a well-known URL (www.fbi.gov) 3. Don't provide any downloads, or anything to click, just ask the user to contact their ISP.
- Vivtek 14y agoThat's insane. They're already freaking conditioned. Talk to my dad sometime.
- cwisecarver 14y agoSend them to a secure page on google.com with instructions on changing their dns servers to 8.8.8.8. Everyone trusts Google, right? ;)