Second Life hit by worm

A self-replicating worm Linden Labs dubbed “grey goo” overtook online game Second Life Sunday, forcing the game’s owners to block all logins but their own for about half an hour. According to comments on the company’s blog, the worm planted spinning gold rings in the world.

This is the kind of news that makes morning coffee taste oh so sweet. The latest Sonic the Hedgehog game was released just last week, so maybe someone got far too caught up in it? The sad thing is that even logging into an MMO doesn’t free you from such web anomalies!