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Information Technology News Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street as Koobface worms its way into Facebook and MySpace | Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street as Koobface worms its way into Facebook and MySpace |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Friday, 01 August 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 This executable is a file called codesetup.exe, and
happens to be a network worm. If you have visited via Facebook you are
sent the MySpace worm and vice-versa. Damn clever these cyber-crime
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Alexander Gostev, Senior Virus Analyst at Kaspersky Lab told us "Unfortunately, users are very trusting of messages left by 'friends' on social networking sites. So the likelihood of a user clicking on a link like this is very high. At the beginning of 2008 we predicted that we'd see an increase in cyber-criminals exploiting MySpace, Facebook and similar sites, and we're now seeing evidence of this." |
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