Friday, April 15, 2005 AD
The word is "Firefox". F-I-R-E-F-O-X.
The BBC reports on the latest IT security scare: malicious blogs that are "used as traps that infect visitor's machines with keylogging software or viruses".
The idea is that, rather than waiting for people to stumble upon the site by accident, an email is sent out that aims to drum up business for the site as if it were a legitimate (if irritatingly pushy) blog.
The BBC report concludes:
The idea is that, rather than waiting for people to stumble upon the site by accident, an email is sent out that aims to drum up business for the site as if it were a legitimate (if irritatingly pushy) blog.
The BBC report concludes:
Users were urged to keep anti-virus and patches up to date, regularly scan machines with anti-spyware products and exercise caution when reading unsolicited messages sent via e-mail or instant messenger.Yada yada yada. What the BBC is unable to do, however, is end its item with a simple:
