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Orkut Hit by Worm
By: Tech2.com News Staff   |   Dec 20, 2007

Google's social networking site Orkut has been hit by  a cross-site scripting worm, infecting users who viewed the emails or Orkut messages carrying its payload.

The wom, says this report, took advantage of an XSS vulnerability in Orkut and used Flash-based JavaScript malware. It added the victims to its rogue Orkut community, called "Infectados pelo Virus do Orkut,", which roughly means "Infected by the Orkut Virus" in Portuguese.

Victims either got alerts from Orkut that they had a new entry to their scrapbook, or received emails from other Orkut friends who also had been infected. The victims reportedly didn't even have to click on a link to be infected.

Orkut fixed the XSS bug earlier today, but according to OrkutPlus, a security community within the social network, the vulnerability was still active in Orkut's so-called sandbox profiles.

Read more here.
 
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it also happened 2 me..... but will the virus affect my pc?
shiva @ Dec 23, 2007
hey guys dont worry abt that, it won't harm ur pc.
swapnil @ Dec 23, 2007
this virus also hit my pc but antivirus avasth found it & deleated it.......so now theres no probs
mohit @ Dec 21, 2007
why adsense vivek its just gr8 and never caused probz?
Sanchit @ Dec 21, 2007
Really adsense and orkut are the Google-killers.....alas...
Vivek @ Dec 21, 2007
Its a shame for the World's best search engine google who has taken the planet by storm .. i never expected things like that for any of the google producta..it seems they are more involved with everything excpet ORKUT!!
panks @ Dec 21, 2007
wat should i do i have this worm in my computer
Sanchit @ Dec 20, 2007
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