Blogs Latest Source of PC Infection

smooth wombat writes "The BBC has a story which indicates that filtering firm Websense believes at least 200 fake blogs are in existence which have malicious code that could infect your pc. Websense said it had seen examples of some computer criminals creating a legitimate looking weblog, loading it with keylogging software or viral code, and then sending out the address of it through instant messenger or spam e-mail. Websense warned that viruses hosted on weblogs might be a danger because they get round the filtering systems many firms have created to ensure malicious programs do not reach employees." From the article: "In separate cases some blogs were being used as storage lockers holding chunks of malicious code that the controller of a network of zombie machines wants those remotely-controlled computers to use."

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ashamed of firefox?

[matt me]

am i the only one now ashamed to be a firefox user? when i first got firebird (0.7) it was a respectable piece of open-source software to use.

now, (i posted on spreadfirefox about wikipedia), most firefox users don't even know what a wiki is.

i'm in gnome in fc3, and want konqueror back. you know you're in a truely geeky browser when the find function and handle regex.