I'm just thankfull that I now use Opera, thanks to our (lack of) marketshare (it's under 1% I believe) I'm pretty sure that I will be fairly safe for atleast a few years. :)
Also, closing down the site shouldn't really speed up the virus fixing, but if more people get affected by this virus they're less likely to return than if they get a message saying that the site currently has a virus and it will be back up in a few more days.
That being said, I've noticed alot of sites have been hit by this recently (VGChartz, NexGenWars, AllAbout-SP) and they all have one thing in common, flash based banner advertisments.
I dunno about anyone else, but using something like Google AdWords would be much better, you know Google aren't going to stick a load of viruses on them. You can customise the ads so that the colours fit better, the adverts are generally more useful compared to the normal advertisments (no, I really don't want to click on the big red fart button... I learnt my lesson from the first time). They're text adverts so they don't get in the way, and ioi will be paid ~50p everytime someone clicks on the add.
Alexa tells me that on average around 14,000 people log onto this website everyday. If only 1 in every hundred people who visit this site click on an add, that would mean that around 140 people would click on an advert every day.*
Google pays the site owner $1 for every click (pays on a monthly basis, I think it's for the month previous, not the current month). XE.com tells me that equals roughly £69.78. So that's roughly £70 a day from advertisments.
whois.net tells me that VGChartz is currently hosted by DreamHost Web Hosting. Their websites most expensive package (from what I could find after a couple of clicks) costs around $80 per month, and with a maximum of ~$50 setp up fee. Clearly the money made from Google AdWords would be vastly more than enough to pay for advertising.
*Actually according to C|Net (http://www.news.com/Firefox+users+ignore+online+ads,+report+says/2100-1024_3-5479800.html) roughly only 0.5% of internet users actually click on adverts, now this will still prduce more than enough cash to maintain this site and make a profit, especially when members, like myself, would be clicking adverts to help support the site.