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Google Blogger "Hosts 2% of World's Malware"
Barence writes "Google's Blogger service is responsible for 2% of the world's malware hosted on the Web, according to a new report from security firm Sophos. The company claims hackers are setting up pages on the free blogging service to host malicious code, or simply posting links to infected websites in other bloggers' comments. 'Blogger accounts for around 2% of malware,' according to Sophos's senior technology consultant, Graham Cluley. 'It's head and shoulders above the rest [of the blogging services].'" Sophos believes that Blogger is favored because, being part of Google, it gets spidered early and often.
When I installed Linux it asked me for my credit card number. Two days later I got a call from Wachovia asking me if I had purchased $400 worth of Totino's pizza rolls and Mountain Dew (I hadn't). Let this be a warning to all of you out there in the Internet.
Perhaps a good reason why blogging should be illegal.
Come on, Google bloggers, that's less than Apple's marketshare! Surely we can do better than that!! Let's get to work!!
I host the other 98% on voggers.com ;)
Meanwhile...
...what?
Cut to Steve Ballmer screaming at some programmers.
Ballmer: Two percent?
Programmer: Sir, we..
Ballmer: Two percent?! I told you twenty!
Programmer: We're trying. It's just...
Ballmer: Just what?
Programmer: There's so much other malware coming out, that it throws our percentages off.
Ballmer: Then hire them!
Programmer: Who? The malware authors?
Ballmer: Do you have a problem with that?
Programmer: I don't think it's ethical.
Ballmer: Tony Stark built this in a cave! With a bunch of scraps!
Programmer:
Those who believe the Internet is private,
find their privates are on the Internet.
My % is bigger than your %.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
"Don't be evil. Just host it."
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
of the money I just inherited from this kind Nigerian Prince!
The other 98% comes from here
Podcast at 11.
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I don't know about that - the type of people who get malware are generally pretty clueless. For example, why would they know that "blogger.com" is part of Google?
I would assume because it has google's name on the main blogger.com page?
Yes! I see it! They're like a pack of wolves! No, Wild Horses! Wait no, Camels. Ahhh! It's an avalanche! Run!
May the Maths Be with you!
Microsoft isn't set to invent blogging until 2011, after including it as a LiveCloud application in Windows 7. By 3Q2011 you are all expected to offer some awed respect to the brilliant innovation of user generated content (patent pending). Guidance is the same for all of their products: stay away from version 1, even numbered and prime numbered versions, and every version before the first service pack.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
... but canada also has a much MUCH lower incidence of gun-related crime.
do we blame the lack of social services in the states for the gun crime? Or perhaps the availability of the guns?
Neither. It's Clinton's fault.
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I'm still pretty sure that counts as malware.
The blog was actually about American stupidity.