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Google Blogger "Hosts 2% of World's Malware"

Posted by kdawson on from the whole-other-web dept.

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.

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  1. A warning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:A warning by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 4, Funny

      I have money in an offshore account left to me by my dying dog may he rest in Jesus' arms, $30,000,000 MILLION USD. Please act as my feduciary agent in moving this moneys safely onshore, and I shall with you share 10%, that is $10,000 THOUSAND USD.

  2. Appropriate actions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps a good reason why blogging should be illegal.

    1. Re:Appropriate actions by Wiarumas · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, we should start a blog about that!

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      I will bend like a reed in the wind.
    2. Re:Appropriate actions by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 4, Funny

      Because we all know that when blogging is a crime, only criminals will blog!

      or something like that

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      Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
    3. Re:Appropriate actions by steelfood · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why couldn't it be both?

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      "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
    4. Re:Appropriate actions by Ihmhi · · Score: 4, Funny

      <NRA>Blogs don't spread malware, people spread malware.

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      Random Thoughts From A Diseased Mind (Not For Dummies)
  3. 2%? by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come on, Google bloggers, that's less than Apple's marketshare! Surely we can do better than that!! Let's get to work!!

  4. Meanwhile... by oahazmatt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Meanwhile...

    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: ...what?

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    Those who believe the Internet is private,
    find their privates are on the Internet.
  5. What, no evil comments yet? by swordgeek · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Don't be evil. Just host it."

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    "People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
    1. Re:What, no evil comments yet? by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 4, Funny

      No kidding! If this was a Microsoft-hosted blogging service, there'd already be 20 posts about the lack of commentary if this were a Google-hosted service. Which it is. Which means there's not.

      Profit.

    2. Re:What, no evil comments yet? by Phurge · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Don't be evil. Just host it."

      and serve ads to it

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      I'll see your hokum and raise you a boondoggle.
  6. And the rest..... by vigour · · Score: 4, Funny

    The other 98% comes from here

  7. Popular blog site has some malware by wattrlz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Podcast at 11.

  8. Re:Users or Malware Study? by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps studying the shape of these clouds and how they choose to connect might help us combat their effectiveness?

    Yes! I see it! They're like a pack of wolves! No, Wild Horses! Wait no, Camels. Ahhh! It's an avalanche! Run!

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    May the Maths Be with you!
  9. Microsoft blogging service by symbolset · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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