Google Bloggers Target of Storm Worms

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Google, Internet

Google Blogger, beware! Fake entries containing links to downloads can infect your Windows run PC. Computers that catch the virus are checked for saleable data or used as carriers. The links began in January by hackers dubbed “Storm Trojans” and may actually been have set up for allowing others to view e-mail entries on their Blogger Journals. Here are some of the storm worm subject lines:

• are you kidding me? lol
• Dude dont send that stuff to my home email…
• Dude your gonna get caught, lol
• HAHAHAHAHAHA, man your insane!
• I cant belive you did this
• LMAO, your crazy man
• LOL, dude what are you doing
• man, who filmed this thing?
• oh man your nutz
• OMG, what are you thinking

Some of the messages feature links to YouTube while others claim to be offering testing software or digital greeting cards. The group has reportedly infected over a million PCs in that time. We suggest it might be time to get a Mac, run Firefox, or find another outlet for your blogging.

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