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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1615&tag=nl.e550

Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 4:31 pm July 31st, 2008

My colleagues at Kaspersky Lab (see disclosure) have intercepted two new worms squirming through MySpace and Facebook, using social engineering lures to plant malware on Windows systems.

The worms propagate via the comments features on the two popular social networks, using video lures and fake Flash Player downloads to trick end users into installing malicious executables.

As part of their malicious payload, the worms transform victim machines into zombie computers to form botnets. Even though the worms are currently only infecting MySpace and Facebook users, Kaspersky Lab analysts are warning users that the worms are designed to upload additional malicious modules with other functionality via the Internet. It is highly probable that victim machines will not only be used for spreading links via these social networking sites, but the botnets will also be used for other malicious purposes.

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can we kill it with

Tracer76, nice find. ill pay more attention to it when i log in  my facebook.

BTW, we always trust Kaspersky  

intelguy:

can we kill it with

 

Tracer76, nice find. ill pay more attention to it when i log in  my facebook.

BTW, we always trust Kaspersky  

Now if I can find one of thouse cans to kill one of these

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Well yes however that is not their responsibility if it were they would be charging users a fee to access the site. We'll take this forum here if some one uploaded a script like this to the site it would not be NewEgg fault for you not protecting your self it’s up to the end-user to have antivirus, spy ware scanner, ECT installed.

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