Virus posted to Google Group!?

Posted on November 10, 2006 by Dragan Pleskonjic

SecurityFocus, in recent article, talks about incident with virus posted to official Google group. It says:

Subscribers to the Google Video group mailing list got more than the latest news on the video features of the Internet giant’s search engine.

On Tuesday night, Google accidentally sent out three posts on the official mailing list that contained copies of the Kapser.A worm, also known as the mass-mailing computer Kama Sutra. The video team pulled the posts from the archive on Wednesday, but not before 50,000 subscribers received the message, according to a PC World report. The company apologized for the mistake.

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