Tuesday, July 25, 2006

MySpace: Not Just Social Danger…now Spyware Hotbed

Are you INFECTED?

According to PC Magazine today, many MySpace users are likely to be part of the 1.07 million computers who now have spyware on their PC. An ad on MySpace about patio furniture prompted a file called exp.wmf. If installed, up to five adware programs could have landed on the users’ computers.


Any user that was browsing with Internet Explorer and had not installed the latest Microsoft patches was vulnerable to this attack. In January, Microsoft released a patch that prevents WMF (Windows Metafile) files, so users that had installed the patch were safe. Browsers using Firefox version 1.5 or later are also protected from WMF files.


So MySpace is not just a social breeding ground for bullies, stalkers and rapists…now it’s a prime target for hackers to sneak malware onto your PC.


Posted at 9:02 PM on Tuesday, July 25, 2006




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