The Department of Homeland Security is... (Score 1)

The Department of Homeland Security is already doing this in the US, except they send all the alerts to ISP's instead of users. Each week I get several e-mails alerting me of IP addresses on our cable networks that have been spreading viruses or worms. It's helpful to keep viruses off of my networks, but it gets to be a pain after a while. For what it's worth, I think the UK e-mailing individual users about it won't do much to stop the problem. Chances are, if the user knows enough to remove the virus after they read the e-mail, they probably already knew enough to keep the virus off in the first place. Your casual home user that doesn't know much about computers is just going to delete the e-mail without thinking twice about it.