As you read this, your computer is being infected...

According to CNET news, Blogspot is the number one site for malware on the internet. Antivirus vendor Sophos claims it detects a webpage with malicious content every 5 seconds on this domain.

Finally, I don't need to scour the web for hours to pick up my daily dose of spyware, trojans, and other bits of malicious code. Before, I would have to travel from domain to domain, viewing questionable content that would sicken me, clicking links promising me that the nastiest farmyard porn ever or a working Photoshop CD-key was just around the corner, just so I could fill my computer up with stuff for SpyBot to remove (there's nothing I hate more than sitting through an entire SpyBot scan only to be informed "Congratulations! No immediate threats were found"... what a waste of time!). Now, all in one domain, I can acquire up to 60 pieces of malicious code in only 5 minutes. And best of all, Blogspot is owned by my favorite company, beloved Google. So in all my travels looking for trouble, I can support a company I believe in. Google has always said it wants to make all the world's information accessible to everyone. It never specified "only the desirable information." That's one of the things I love about Google; it doesn't discriminate. It doesn't matter if it's a Wikipedia entry, a bit of your own private personal private information, or a back-door root-kit; Google won't stop until everyone has access to it freely, quickly, and easily. Information wants to be free, after all. (Wait, what about "Do No Evil"?)

Keen readers may also notice that this actual blog itself is hosted on the domain in question. Let me tell you, the greatest thing about all this, according to CNET News, is that it's not only the bloggers that can shell out malware... that's right! The fun isn't limited to me! This is a participatory activity, everybody. The system on Blogspot that allows users to leave comments has exploits such that you too can use my blog as a malicious software relay to the entire world. Of course you might want to pick a blog that has a little more traffic than mine. Infecting my blog would be about as effective writing a virus for the Macintosh OS 9.