It’s just data

Deworming

Running Linux and Firefox, I’m pretty safe from most viruses, but worms are another story, and I was fooled into propagating one earlier this evening.  I haven’t pieced together all the details yet, but as near as I can tell Facebook doesn’t care to police such things despite many people reporting the issue.

Looking deeper into the worm itself, it appears that Google is hosting key portions.  I’ve reported the abuse to Google; meanwhile I’m hoping that somebody at Google who reads this could expedite the taking down of this blog.

Hi Sam,

Can you also report that here please:

  www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware

I’d enter it myself, but as I have only the limited details you wrote in this post, I don’t feel comfortable calling it malware myself without more information.  (Not that I doubt you in the slightest, it’s only that I can’t make an assertion about it personally.)

And of course, we need to go through standard process to take down content.

-DeWitt

Posted by DeWitt Clinton at

Blog investigated, taken down.  Thanks.

Posted by John Panzer at

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