Posts Tagged ‘blogger’

Google Gives us a Triple Treat

December 1, 2007  |  , , , ,  |  View Comments

This week has been a pretty busy week for Googlers, as a lot of Google Services and Products have received considerable upgrades. The latest in line are Google Reader and Blogger. Google Reader has added a couple of handy features in Drag and Drop Support and Feed Recommendations, While Blogger has added support for OpenID in the comments.

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Google Crushed By Storm : The Virus Cannot Be Stopped

August 30, 2007  |  , , , ,  |  View Comments

Believe it or not over a 1000 blogs on Google’s Blogger have been infected by a worm called Storm. What they are perpetrators of the Storm Worm are trying to do is to trick users into clicking poisonous links with some titillating messages.

The links are shown to link to a Video hosted on Youtube while it actually takes you to an infected computer that makes a part of the botnet. Over 500 blogs on the blogspot domain are infected with this infection.. The Messages that link to the infected sites read something like this :

“Dude what if your wife finds this” and “Sheesh man what are you thinkin”. There can be many more but right now there is nothing that we know. According to one search on Google Search, about 424 Blogger sites have been infected. The actual number is probably higher because the search contained only a small fraction of the teasers used by Storm.
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