Comments on: Puppies and Gremlins http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2007/08/29/puppies-and-gremlins/ ...politics, pictures, pugs and all that jazz Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: karoli http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2007/08/29/puppies-and-gremlins/comment-page-1/#comment-39700 karoli Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:14:12 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2007/08/29/puppies-and-gremlins/#comment-39700 Thank you, Stephen. It was sloppy writing and I've corrected it. Thank you, Stephen. It was sloppy writing and I’ve corrected it.

]]> By: Stephen Downes http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2007/08/29/puppies-and-gremlins/comment-page-1/#comment-39694 Stephen Downes Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:48:33 +0000 http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2007/08/29/puppies-and-gremlins/#comment-39694 That's really sloppy writing that needs to be corrected. The blogs are not infected. There is no worm in the blogs. What has happened is that the worm - inside people's copies of Windows - have caused their email systems (probably Outlook) to send email to every address on their address list, including their blogs. When you click on the URL in the email (or on the blog, because that's where the email ends up) it attempts to download and run an .exe file. That's how people get infected. That’s really sloppy writing that needs to be corrected.

The blogs are not infected. There is no worm in the blogs.

What has happened is that the worm – inside people’s copies of Windows – have caused their email systems (probably Outlook) to send email to every address on their address list, including their blogs.

When you click on the URL in the email (or on the blog, because that’s where the email ends up) it attempts to download and run an .exe file. That’s how people get infected.

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