Spyware Wants To Be Your Friend On MySpace
from the how-nice dept
Sandbagger writes "A security researcher has discovered a ring of websites that look like regular "MySpace profile edit" sites. The killer is this: they try to get you to add "their" videos onto your profile page (with the addition of some code), but don't mention the fact that if you add these videos, they pop open an installer box to any visitors that tries to get them to install Zango adware onto the PC. The original affiliate make money every time it's installed, and all you get is a heap of complaints (and possibly a banned profile) because your profile is trying to install adware on visitors' computers. As the researcher notes, video files that try to install adware aren't new, but using unknowing teens to push adware is some kind of new low."
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Worried about spyware
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YAY! What fun! Adding people I don't know and will never meet as "friends". The only good thing about is sometimes a good band will put up a page to showcase thier music. Indie has gone cyberspace.
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People meet all the time, and they don't always get killed or raped.
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To Voxx
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Myspace sucks? that's nothing new.
So now I can expect an invite from SexySuzanne7104 to also include malicious code, does the contemporary dating scene get any better than this? I wouldn't know because I'm aware of the aforementioned and that turns young women off.
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Will someone visit my geocities site please
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MySpace is Good...
goodday
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Re: MySpace is Good...
It's true....people use myspace to be glorified, apparently nobody can accept any form of compliment unless it's in a comment...it's stupid.
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Stop trying to sound cool
Brandini - how can you sit back and judge other people for what they do with their free time? More importantly, why do you care?
2nd poster who didn't leave a name - first of all, did you really call just call myspace an invention? Wow. That just shows what kind of person we're dealing with here. From a business standpoint, here you have a website that attracts millions of users and is talked about in so many different walks of life, and you're saying it's "dumb?" Didn't the guys who "invented" it sell it for millions? Most people think it's amazing that they can reconnect with so many people from the past, but a few losers like you didn't have friends in high school, so you think it's a "dumb invention."
Please try to be realistic. Just because something turns into a bandwagon, it doesn’t mean it’s not worthwhile.
As far as the original story goes, yes – these things do exist and that’s just how life goes. When you get so many low-tech people using something (think Windows and/or the internet) that they don’t really understand, hackers are going to take advantage of them. That’s just how life goes.
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Hey everyone, roads are so dumb, so I'm glad they're full of potholes.
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If getting spoofed invites and the occasional spam unhinges you then by all means avoid My Space. It's not for you.
The internet probably isn’t for you either.
It's always the same crap from socially crippled losers always harping on social networking opportunities they cant figure out.
For those of us who have leaned to navigate the online world and learned the ins and outs of it networks like My Space can be very useful.
Before I got married I had great success meeting, I mean really meeting, women online and ultimately met my wife in an online network. I continue to find My Space an excellent resource for finding models for my photography.
But the losers will keep on whining: Everyone is a fake online.
Can My Space be stupid? You bet and alot of it is. But you can say the same of every social situation, like going to a bar or a concert.
I just think it's funny how adamant the losers are about things like My Space, its just another life situation to fail at I guess.
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heh
Sure, there are a few people on myspace that take it a little too seriously, but you dont have to let them ruin the experience for you.
Lately I have noticed an increase of some very sneaky advertisements that users are putting on their pages without knowing it. I've seen some where you click the "add to friends" button and it takes you to a different website, or there are even ones where you can click anywhere on the entire profile and it will send you straight to a website.
I've also noticed alot more misleading accounts where they will send you a friends request at random (and they look like a hot girl), and when you click on the profile it will reroute you to a porn site. Just yesterday I got about 12 invites from those kinds of bots. Things like that are really ruinging the "joyful experience" that I expect to have while using myspace, but I'm nowhere near not using the site anymore.
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It may not be that it is too lame...
Me? i am TOO OLD for MySpace. i am TOO OLD for Text Messaging. I think it is TOO RIDICULOUS to want to have your music playing in your ear all day with an iPod.
I am sure there are plenty of MySpace haters that feel the same way.
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Myspace spyware
It became such a widespread issue, that myspace is now banned in the workspace, and firewall rules put in to prevent access.
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I mainly get them when I am checking my messages or bulletins.
It about 5 popups, and I had between one trojan too 5 at a time.
And if you read MySpace's privacy policy, they cannot be sued for anything on myspace that may damage your computer.
((MySpace disclaims any liability for damage to any computer system resulting from applying for, or accessing or downloading information in connection with this offer, and reserves the right, in their sole discretion, to cancel, modify or suspend the offer should a virus, bug, computer problem, unauthorized intervention or other causes beyond MySpaceÕs control, corrupt the administration or security of the offer.))
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Guilty Conscience
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Myspace Is Not That Bad At All
It's so dumb when they say that child predators hunt down kids on myspace because the only way that can happen to you is if you ALLOW it to. You can block a person,or make your profile private so if you're smart you will stay out of trouble. The only people that usually fall victims to child predators are lonely/desperate teens who LOOK for these people.
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popups
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Great Social Network For Filmmakers, Actors, and S
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popups
Me? i am TOO OLD for MySpace. i am TOO OLD for Text Messaging. I think it is TOO RIDICULOUS to want to have your music playing in your ear all day with an iPod.
I am sure there are plenty of MySpace haters that feel the same way.
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Spyware
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One Giant spy
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oh and not to mention
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frirnds
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Try Yuwie?
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I have signed up with them in January and I've noticed that ever since I've been with them, my computer started acting up, like really really slow. Basically it's all the symptoms of spyware or viruses. We had to re-image the computer, and then it was fine. So I avoided yuwie for a few months, and just started trying it again last week. But again... my computer is acting up like it's filled with spyware or something. :(
So my question is ... does the yuwie site have spyware or viruses?
-Jules
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if pc bogs down while using yuwie or any site
a good combination of antivirus programs will help.three that are compatible running with one another
1.avira free antivirus
2.cloud panda(free)
3.microsoft security essentials
also iobit security 360(free)
and pc tools firewall plus(free)
these will run in the system tray and won't bog the pc down but will protect your pc tremendously!!
try yuwie again after downloading and activating the software above
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