I blame the success of malware like this on two things – The fact that up until a couple years ago, you could pretty much implicitly trust things served up by the internet, and not educating people about who it’s safe to download things from and who it isn’t.

People need to realize that downloading a file could potentially be the same thing as handing a stranger the keys to your car or leaving your garage door open overnight. You might be able to get away with it and not get hosed, but you’re asking for trouble.

When is the media going to start making a bigger deal out of the malware threat people face daily? My little Ferndale, MI computer repair company deals with this stuff day in and day out, and it’s effecting everyone from teenage Myspace junkies to old ladies looking at flower websites. And from where I’m sitting, it seems to be getting worse daily.