Germany Alerts Infected Computer Users By Phone
To fight against online viruses, the German government will set up a national help desk that users can call in to help them get rid of viruses on their computers. Aside from this, Germany also wants Internet service providers to call the computer users and alert them if they have a virus installed on their computer.
As it stands, the Internet service providers can already see which computers are infected, so merely notifying the users will not cost the companies too much money. It is estimated that one quarter of the computers in Germany have been taken over by harmful software, so hopefully this will help unsuspecting users to clean up their computers.
(Via IndiaENews)
