Blogs and spyware, join forces

Apparently some of the blogs over at Blogspot (I believe that is Google's free blog site) spread spyware (more here and here). The issue seems to be with NextBar, which looks to be a browser plug-in which... does something useful? Not sure on that, but it also appears to get you to sites which give you spyware, so it's got that going for it, you know, which is nice.

Do note that it appears you have to be using IE and Windows in order to get this, which makes me repeat the usual "please switch to FireFox" mantra that it seems the whole net is chanting at those who haven't caught on yet.

FireFox is not bulletproof, but it is far better than the leaky mess that IE is currently (at least until IE 7 comes out).

Posted by Eric at February 22, 2005 11:49 AM | TrackBack