If you haven’t used Google Docs yet, it is WAY cool – especially if you work in an office environment. No more passing Word or Excel docs around and having numerous versions … which is always frustrating. We’ve switched to it for all of our collaborative documents and it has been truly a life-saver. Especially when we had someone’s laptop die, and all the docs we needed were online.

Whew.

And when I read a post earlier this month about Spam hitting Google Docs I passed it off as “rumor” reporting as I had never seen it, nor anyone I knew. Well, that opinion changed yesterday when I was hit. What happened is I found a lot of documents in my list which weren’t ours. I have no idea what is in the documents as I don’t want to mess with opening one of them and testing what type of “pay load” they have. Instead, I just deleted them. I haven’t seen them back … but others have.

Google is aware of the issue and they are working on a fix. In the meantime, they assure their users that their documents are completely secure and accounts have not been compromised. What needs to happen is simply have a “handshake” when a document is shared with another user – and users can be blacklisted.

Google Docs is a killer system, but their document sharing feature needs to have better in order for this Spam issue to cease.

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