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What do you mean reports of infected docs? Aren't documents accessed via web interface and shared on line? i.e. they are not downloaded to your PC as such.
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What do you mean reports of infected docs? Aren't documents accessed via web interface and shared on line? i.e. they are not downloaded to your PC as such.

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Sorry, I was referring to redirect links on Google's pages which after doing some reading appear to be a result of a PC that was already infected.<br />
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<a href="http://www.brighthub.com/internet/google/articles/66090.aspx" rel="ugc">http://www.brighthub.com/internet/google/articles/66090.aspx</a><br />
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It doesn't appear infections from the service itself are anything to stress over.
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Sorry, I was referring to redirect links on Google's pages which after doing some reading appear to be a result of a PC that was already infected.

http://www.brighthub.com/internet/google/articles/66090.aspx [http://www.brighthub.com/internet/google/articles/66090.aspx]

It doesn't appear infections from the service itself are anything to stress over.

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Is Google docs a known pathway for virus infection?
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Is Google docs a known pathway for virus infection?

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File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include manual sharing utilizing removable media, centralized servers on computer networks, World Wide Web-based hyperlinked documents, distributed peer-to-peer networking (P2P) and cloud-based file syncing.