All these social networking sites who claim that they are very secure have been hacked in past one week. Many are calling it the orkut virus.
This time orkut has been made the target with a profile scrap virus called "bom sabado"(means good saturday). Its spreading from profile to profile. It is a link and is automatically sending itself
from ones list to another and has infected thousands of profiles in India and Brazil.
HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM BOM SABADO
>> Immidiately clear your browser cookie because its a cookie stealing virus so immideately clear your browser cookies.
>>Gone are the days when you have to click any link to get your account hacked. there are chances that even if you open your scrapbook then also your account can be hacked. So better keep away from orkut atleast till today(25.9.2010).
>>change your password if you have logged into orkut since yesterday(24.9.2010) because there are chances of somthing even worse to happen.
>> Unjoin any community that sends automatic scraps to your friends because this can help the virus to spread to other profiles in your friendlist too.
>>If you find your account hacked,dont panic , revert back to the older orkut layout and unjoin any brazilian community or multiple scrap sending community.
There are still no official reports from the orkut owner google. The code is a javascript that has a hidden iframe tag which is enabling it to steal the cokkie sessions.
Its highly recomended to not to open your orkut account until this script is disabled by orkut.
Keep safe.
DARKLORD!!!
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