Those hoopy froods at Google are having some fun today – they’ve changed their Google logo to a playable version of the legendary Pacman game, which apparently is celebrating its 30th birthday.
(Notice how they’ve even cutely changed one of their famous buttons to say “Insert coin”?)
Judging by some of the messages that are being posted online (and reports of calls that have come into consumer technical support departments) there might be a fair few people who are baffled by the change to their search engine’s home page, and may even fear that they have been infected by a virus.
But don’t worry – this isn’t a virus.
In fact, viruses these days are rarely as visual (or as fun!) as the playable Pacman arcade game that Google has shared with the world today. There’s no reason for workers to panic about a virus infection on this occasion, although system administrators may worry that productivity will take a hit. :)
There have, of course, been viruses that have posed as games in…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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