Wikipedia used to spread Virus

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Wikipedia used to spread Virus

11-06-2006, 09:59 AM,

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Wikipedia used to spread Virus

Quote:Computer users are being warned against opening unsolicited mails after hackers took advantage of the popular Wikipedia encyclopedia in their attempt to spread malicious code.

Wikipedia allows anyone to create and modify articles, a policy of openness which has often been abused by mischief-makers in the past. Taking advantage of this fact, an article on the German edition of Wikipedia, de.wikipedia.org, was created by hackers claiming to include a link to a fix for a supposedly new version of the Blaster worm. However, the 'fix' was actually a piece of malicious code, designed to infect visitors' PCs.

Hackers then spammed out an email to German computer users...

full article: http://www.tech2.com/india/news/telecom/...are/2667/0

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