The post was a mistake from my part in understanding the context of the statement. I apologize for the error.

Thanks goes to Nirmal for pointing it out.

Windows has always been considered a vulnerable OS to viruses, but not Linux. I haven’t heared about any virus for Linux except for some university project somewhere. So do not expect me to discover a new virus for Linux. This is much more interesting, actually.

The virus I found, running, on Linux (Ubuntu to be specific) was actually a Windows virus. Some of you might already have figured out the culprit here. So how did the Windows virus manage to run on Linux which doesn’t even support any Windows specific file.

Wine is a software application which allows Unix like OSes to run programs written for Windows. So if you set the default assocaiation for exe files to Wine in Linux, you can just double click on exe files and run them just like you do in Windows. So if this is right then you can get infected with almost any Windows Virus in Linux.. although the consequences may not be much important.

[Screen Shot soon]

Any Virus using AutoPlay can infect by this method. So if the virus is running after you inserted a USB drive it will copy itself to any external storage device automatically. So virtually you get your USB drive infected with virus from a LINUX system. To prevent this from happeneing do not set the default association for exe file to Wine. Just leave it in the Open with list and chose it when you need to run an exe file.

The removal and detection could be understood from the screen shot provided. Click on the screen shot for a bigger one with more details.

Microsoft has made a big issue with patent infringements by Open Source Software including Linux, they need to look at their own products too. With their unstated theme “Do no Good” Microsoft had recently stated in a press release that Open Source Software were infringing more than 300 patents by Microsoft. Whatever but did Microsoft think they could use the products or ideas modeled under GPL.

Here is a poll I created, Please express your opinion as votes..

I think a small amendment has to be done to GNU GPL by which Microsoft is prevented from usiing any of the ideas, software or other fucntionality of software protected under GPL. If there is a tit there have to be a TAT too.

Google has introduced theme facility for the iGoogle page. you can currently select hundreds of themes form those available to make you iG page unique. you can select themes by clicking on the Select Theme link at the right corner just above all the tabs – in the figure just below the snowman.

After many review requests to and have finally removed the warning “This site may harm your computer!” from the results of this blog. My previous assumptions had been wrong and I discovered something that was even worse inside the template. There was an unknown script inserted inside the lsidebar.php file of the limau orange theme. I haven’t added anything to the file manually. So I think it was from the original file itself.

Now that the problems are over I think the traffic from Google will be back to normal.

Have you ever been in a situation where any of the Google services won’t index you even after months of submitting. There is a fair chance that even if you have got legit articles and valuable links, your site or blog won’t appear on Google. I came to know about this from an article by Chris Webb on getting his blog indexed after being ignored for a long time.

In his case the cause was that the domain name was used for illegal purposes before he obtained it. He searched through the Internet Archive and found out about this. So he submitted his site for reconsideration through Google Webmatertools and was reinexed by Google.