The addition of Drag Drop will be greatly helpful to all those feed junkies out there, because from now, you don’t have to use all those menu’s to arrange your feeds in folders. The other new feature is Recommendations, which suggests feeds that you must read, on the basis of your Feed reading history and your Web Search History. The Feeds that Google Reader suggested for me, were not the kind of stuff I read regularly, so I guess the algorithms need some tweaking.

Google has also rolled out one significant update to Blogger today, and that is, you can now leave comments on blogs using OpenID. Until now you needed a Blogger or Google account if you didn’t want to leave an anonymous comment.

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.

I can’t seem to find anything on how this virus penetrated Google’s security systems and the company has not commented anything on this matter just yet. I hope they disinfect these sites as soon as possible. Blogger is something huge and if an infection starts spreading there, the situation can get really worse than what it really is now.

The Virus/Worm first surfaced in January this year, and new computers got it after a lot of users clicked on links included in some spam mails. If you get infected, you will be part of a botnet and your PC will spam others all day long, without you even ever knowing about it. The spam-mails contained news about storms in Europe, greeting cards, login credentials and teasers about YouTube videos, all trying to trick users into clicking on links. The most important thing is that, it really worked – about 2 millions hosts have been infected, and the virus hasn’t been stopped yet.

Via : The Register