Advisory

A virus recently peppered my multiply account while I am out of the office.... imagine, I am in Ateneo de Naga right now and I just discovered a few minutes before that a supposedly private mail was sent by the virus to the mail addresses in my address book. What the ....

Haha, so much about my paranoia of net viruses. I discovered a loophole in my blog sites: cross-posting by mail. The concept is: I can post an article to my blogs from anywhere (through phone, or laptop) by just sending an e-mail to a specific blog address.

Now, a virus intercepts my mail (which is supposed to be private) and sends it to the specific blog address and to other email addresses, yahoogroups-- voila! MY MAIL IS POSTED IN ALL MY BLOG SITES AND YOU RECEIVE THE MAIL!

Katangahan ko, sorry if you have received the mail, it was intended for a specific person whom I was asking permission to post a specific photograph in my site.

Lesson: if you have a cross-posting feature in the blog, make sure the blog's email address is not in your address book (just memorize it), or better yet, turn off the email posting for the blogsite.

My apologies to you, and to the specific person to whom the e-mail was supposed to be sent. If you have the mail, please delete it. It may contain a worm or something that replicates itself through email attachments. Thanks.