The social network Orkut, which belongs to company Google, on this week was struck by computer worm.
Service Orkut was started during January 2004. The creator of service is Orkut Boyyukkokten, one of the developers of the interface of the search system Google. The social network Orkut is intended, first of all, for the online contact between the friends and the search for new acquaintances. Recently many user accounts of Orkut proved to be struck by uncommon harmful program. Subscribers of Orkut began to obtain the electronic letters, in which by it, it communicated that in system Orkut Scrapbook (it adapts for positioning the messages) new record appeared. With the subsequent attempt at the survey of profile, occurred the automatic infection of accounts, and its owner was joined to the group(Community) by the name Infectados pelo Virus do Orkut (in the Portuguese it indicates “it is infected by Orkut- virus”). According to some data, literally for hours the harmful program struck some 650,000 user accounts. However, any destructive functions in the code of worm, it is similar, was not placed. According to preliminary analysis,the harmful program is written with application of JavaScript and Flash and with the propagation was used as a breach in the program platform Orkut.So, Orkut users BEWARE!
Service Orkut was started during January 2004. The creator of service is Orkut Boyyukkokten, one of the developers of the interface of the search system Google. The social network Orkut is intended, first of all, for the online contact between the friends and the search for new acquaintances. Recently many user accounts of Orkut proved to be struck by uncommon harmful program. Subscribers of Orkut began to obtain the electronic letters, in which by it, it communicated that in system Orkut Scrapbook (it adapts for positioning the messages) new record appeared. With the subsequent attempt at the survey of profile, occurred the automatic infection of accounts, and its owner was joined to the group(Community) by the name Infectados pelo Virus do Orkut (in the Portuguese it indicates “it is infected by Orkut- virus”). According to some data, literally for hours the harmful program struck some 650,000 user accounts. However, any destructive functions in the code of worm, it is similar, was not placed. According to preliminary analysis,the harmful program is written with application of JavaScript and Flash and with the propagation was used as a breach in the program platform Orkut.So, Orkut users BEWARE!
Check out the community Infectados pelo Virus do Orkut here: