Google Accidentally Sends Out a Virus

[Positive]

Email subscribes to the Google Video blog were accidentally sent the notorious "Kama Sutra" worm along with a Google mailing this week. Approximately 50,000 people subscribe to the Google Video blog email group.

Google is advising recipients to use antivirus software to remove the worm from their computers. Apparently an internal moderator of the mailing list inadvertently allowed outside messages (including the one containing the virus) to be sent to the Google Video mailing list.

Google said: "We are taking steps to make sure this doesn't happen again."

The Kama Sutra virus is largely harmless, but gained its name and fame in February when it was disguised as e-mail porn.

Source: http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/701

I wonder how come that big company made such a mistake? Were any of you infected?

[infinitomagazine]

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is a mistake, mistakes happen right?
thats why I only use google search engine

[vlad230]

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This was a big error for a company as big as GOOGLE....This makes me laugh

[mtorregiani]

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I can't believe this, I thought google was a company to trust...

[sar420]

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Source: http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/701

I wonder how come that big company made such a mistake? Were any of you infected?

Oh my God, that's terrible. What of those people who's computers actually got damaged. Will google provide them with compensation?

[namd3r]

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What is everyone talking about? This isn't a big error at all. Sure, 50000 computers were infected with a worm. But think about that number for a minute. Then think about the number of people that use Google. That's probably a percentage of a percentage point of the number of people that use Google regularly. And because they are so huge, they'll be sure to fix the error right away. It's obviously not a big deal to people. Google will still grow at its usual exponential rate.

[kazys]

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wow, i can't believe that google made that big mistake ;/

[infinitomagazine]

Re: Google Accidentally Sends Out a Virus

Google has lot of things to do, so one little mistake is not a big deal

[LikuiD]

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Damn, that must have really been embaressing to them
Good thing it was a harmless worm, or it could have caused much more damage

[AugustineCruze]

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I still trust them..! people make mistake. and the mistake was done by a staff of google who is a human man not a robot, so mistake can happen.. that's normal thing.

[Joe]

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I think that's a horrible mistake by google. They should be paying for the damages that this incident caused.

[sb225]

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I see some times gmail was doing bad like not loading or empty inbox i dont know why it was but this problems are not their in begining

btw how do theyh are gonna going to pay money for the mistake?

[htmlindex]

Re: Google Accidentally Sends Out a Virus

Really? Wow. Did that virus do any damage? Would Google be liable for it if it did?

[smilgy]

Re: Google Accidentally Sends Out a Virus

mistakes happnen, theres nothing more to say to this story

[Cheapquality]

Re: Google Accidentally Sends Out a Virus

Everything can be infected, also google are running by human, they can also do anything which we can't beleave.