Can RSS Feeds carry a Virus Payload?

January 8th, 2009 We have seen and discussed many anti-virus software earlier in our blog. Even today, when we use an anti-virus software it is either for prevention or for cure.

August 6th, 2006 AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition has the annoying habit of popping up a virus alert everytime it detects an email virus. There is no way to stop the alert in the free edition (on Windows).

June 11th, 2005 I was initially providing excerpted feeds only. However I switched over to full feed format.

August 29th, 2008 Please share your experience with Google AdSense for Feeds. My experience is pretty dismal so far.

July 18th, 2006 MySpace has been infected by Flash based (swf) worm which spreading rapidly through MySpace. It is embedding JavaScript code into users' profiles that redirects visitors to a site claiming the U.S.

November 7th, 2005 Computer hackers are exploiting increasing fears over bird flu by releasing a computer virus attached to an email passing itself off as containing avian flu information, warned Spanish virus protection software firm Panda Software. The virus Naiva.A masquerades as a word document with email subject lines such as Outbreak In North America and What Is Avian Influenza (bird flu)?, said the firm on its website.

December 31st, 2005 F-Secure claims that the latest "leaked" beta of the IM client might not be what it seems. It is a virus in disguise.

November 4th, 2005 I realized that all my feeds in artima have been, without my knowledge, replaced with a sedo site, a domain squatter, with my domain name as a query in their script. Either they have hacked into my Artima account or they found some loophole in Artima site which they exploited to increase their page rank and effectively disabling all my feeds.

October 21st, 2005 It appears to me full content RSS feeds are actually helping and compounding the splog (spam blog) problem. Splogs or spam blogs are blogs which are created by using syndicated content of other blogs, automatically aggregated, to increase their PR and AdSense dollars.

July 8th, 2005 After recent reports of several critical security vulnerabilities of PHP based software. I decided to take a closer look at the current state of security with PHP based products.

January 15th, 2009 Baffled with a sea of RSS feeds in your reader or aggregator? You are not alone. This happens to every other subscriber.

June 11th, 2009 There are many users worldwide who feel helpless before malicious attackers and hackers attacking Windows Live Messenger and MSN Messenger. Once your MSN messenger is infected by virus, Trojan, worm, keyloggers, bots and other malicious threats your privacy and confidential details such as chat history or login and password may be compromised.

September 2nd, 2009 Wiretapping Skype calls: virus eavesdrops on VoIPSAN FRANCISCO — Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations that go over computers instead of a regular phone line.

June 28th, 2006 Sometime back Sony BMG released DRM rootkit software. At that time Sony insisted that no one should care about the Sony BMG rootkits because most people had no clue what rootkits were.

October 20th, 2005 I wouldn't re-hash popular arguments for / against providing full RSS feeds here. I would just like to point out a simple capability with most RSS readers, I have tested with, that can be leveraged to keep both camps happy.