About Bom Sabado - Orkut Virus ......!!



Google's social networking website Orkut has been attacked by virus called Bom 
Sabado on Saturday morning, which is a big treat for orkut .Bom sabado is a 
Portuguese world it meansGood Saturday in English. 




Bom Sabado is an orkut virus affecting profiles of many. Those who are affected 
by this virus are advised to change password and security question. Log out 
immediately and also clear the cookies and history.


Users are also advised not to open Orkut account until the problem solved. 
Orkut had just last month announced new updates to the website. It's a second 
time Orkut got affected by this kind of viruses. The same virus has hit Orkut 
last Feb also.
A few hours back, the Bom Sabado virus seems to have started and now it is all 
over orkut scraps that spreading from friend to friends. It is an auto 
generated message which is filing your scrapebooks. The scraps come from the 
friend list and it comes just like any other normal orkut scraps. Users are 
also advised not to open such scraps. The bug is hitting your cookies and 
automatically sending messages to your friend list.
If anyone reads this scrap even in their profile, their cookies are also stoled 
and so they are also posting scrap automatically to their friend list same 
scrap as bomb something like.
Orkut officials have not clear yet that the Bom Sabado is a virus or not. In 
week, this is a second XSS attack on a social networking website. The popular 
microblogging website Twitter was also attacked by a computer worm created by 
Norwegian. Twitter was received an XSS exploit, the attack, which emerged and 
was shut down within hours Tuesday morning and involved a XSS flaw that allowed 
users to run JavaScript programs on other computers.
" So do not login to your orkut account, 
" If you want to change password, use this link www.google.com/accounts/ 
Solutions:-
" Do not visit any profile on Orkut till this script is blocked 
" Clear your cookies and cache right away and change your password and security 
question. 
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