Did a worm infect Alaska candidates' site?
If you're a write-in candidate without major political party recognition, there's nothing quite like mysterious malicious software radiating from your Web site to earn you a little extra publicity.
That's what happened this week to Ted and Fran Gianoutsos, a husband-wife team running for governor and lieutenant governor, respectively, in Alaska's race.
Late last week, the candidates' Webmaster logged in to do some updates on the site, only to find that his "firewall went crazy." The problem? A 2-year-old Visual Basic script worm--known variously as Gaggle.D, I-Worm.Gedza and Gedza.A--apparently had wriggled its way into each page of the Gianoutsos' minimalist campaign site at http://www.tedandfran.com/who.htm.
