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Google Accidentally Sends Virus in Mass E-Mail

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saipothuri Original post #1
Nov 9, 2006 at 11:09 PM
In a sign that quality control problems at Google persist, the Google Video team sent an e-mail to about 50,000 recipients yesterday that may have contained a virus.

The e-mail was sent to a discussion list focused on its Google Video blog.

"On Tuesday evening, three posts were made to the Google Video Blog-group that should not have been posted," Google said in a statement. "Some of these posts may have contained a virus called W32/Kapser.A@mm -- a mass mailing worm. If you think you have downloaded this virus from the group or an e-mail message, we recommend you run your antivirus program to remove it."

Google has recently suffered from several accidental postings to its corporate blogs.


*googlewatch.eweek.com/blogs/google_watch/archive/2006/11/09/14505.aspx
satyamy
satyamy #2
Nov 9, 2006 at 11:44 PM
strange Google did that.........
shivkumar
Nov 10, 2006 at 12:20 AM
lol: its really surprising that google can do such a blunder. Now onwards i will better be careful.
piyush gupta
Nov 10, 2006 at 12:44 AM
this proves

HUMAN IS ERR
blueshift
Nov 10, 2006 at 9:06 AM
Read that in Digg.
Mistakes do happen. I am still going to use Google services.
Kiran.dks
Nov 10, 2006 at 9:40 AM
These things will happen very often than imagined. Not only with Google, but with any one. Internet is no more safe. Day-by-day it is being dumped with all kinds of malware. It is really sad to see that a great invention is being misused for illegal purposes.
outlaw
outlaw #8
Nov 10, 2006 at 11:50 AM
cant believe google did that
tuxfan
tuxfan #9
Nov 10, 2006 at 1:58 PM
This shows Google is becoming bigger than earlier. They are going the M$ way and have slipped on security issues :lol:
JGuru
JGuru #10
Nov 10, 2006 at 3:52 PM
@Tuxfan, Google is using Windows O.S!! So the mass-mailing worm was able to attach
itself to all the emails sent by Google!! Lesson learnt from this : Don't use Windows O.S!!
tuxfan
tuxfan #11
Nov 10, 2006 at 6:36 PM
:lol: Has google really learnt its lessons from this? Only time will tell. But just imagine what a position M$ has achieved!! Even its competitors are its customers ;)
deepak.krishnan
Nov 11, 2006 at 7:09 PM
A really innovative way to gift the users. :)
anandk
anandk #13
Nov 11, 2006 at 8:08 PM
its known as the Kama-Sutra virus, i think ! :rolleyes:

no wonder people consider google Hot :lol:
Vishal Gupta
Nov 11, 2006 at 8:19 PM
tuxfan said:
:lol: Has google really learnt its lessons from this? Only time will tell. But just imagine what a position M$ has achieved!! Even its competitors are its customers ;)
Awarded as Post of the day! :D
kumarmohit
Nov 12, 2006 at 1:59 PM
JGuru said:
@Tuxfan, Google is using Windows O.S!! So the mass-mailing worm was able to attach
itself to all the emails sent by Google!! Lesson learnt from this : Don't use Windows O.S!!

But isnt Google using a customized version of Ubuntu called Goobuntu or something.

*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu