Friday, April 24, 2009

Computer "Tip of the Day" 04-24

4th Mikey worm loose!
Posted by Mr. Haklab in on Monday, April 13, 2009

--Alert to Twitter users: The 4th generation of the Mikeyy twitter exploit is out. Just by viewing a twitter profile an XSS code will be injected which will retweet the following tweets:
How TO remove new Mikeyy worm! RT!! http://bit.ly/yCL1s
This worm is getting out of hand Twitter. - Mikeyy
Twitter, your community is going to be mad at you... - MikeyyAnd it even changes your bio and put's the mikey URL in your URL field. It also changes the Hexx color to #mikeyy.Steps to fix it:1. Change your hex color/reset it2. Change your bio and change the URL3. DONT click on any profile that is suspicious and use another twitter client like TweetDeck instead of the Twitter websiteJust wait until Twitter fixes it. I'll make an update here for you fellow Tweeps!

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