Wikipedia Used to Spread Malicious Code
Posted by Donster on: 2006-11-06 14:51:03 616
By Tom Espiner Special to CNET News.com

The entry for the MSBlast worm in the German version of the popular online encyclopedia was altered to include false information about a new version of the Lovesan/MSBlast worm, with links to a supposed fix, according to Sophos. The fix was actually a piece of malicious code, the antivirus vendor said in a notice published Friday.

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