I knew that Google always blocked the sending and receiving of a virus but I had never thought to see what happens if you try to send a virus. A Google Blogoscoped visitor sent in the above screenshot of what happened when he tried to send the eicar virus string to himself in a text file. After that had failed he also tried changing the extension to JPG and WMV but neither of those worked as well.

The entire concept of RSS (Really Simply Syndication) is growing in all forms as people are slowly becoming aware of such a concept. Offertrax, a startup Web 2.0 company is using RSS to connect consumers and merchants with trusted rules of engagement.