The 'Bom Sabado' worm which had hacked through millions of Orkut accounts is now removed by Google. Google released a statement in their blog which notified all users that the worm Bom Sabado has been dealt with & Orkut is safe for now.
"Hi all,
This is to inform you all that we've contained the "Bom Sabado" virus and have identified the bug that allowed this and have fixed it.
We're currently working on restoring the affected profiles.
Thanks a ton to each of you who's made an effort to alert everyone else about this. I'll make sure to keep you guys posted on more updates"
The worm Bom Sabado which has a very ironic translation into Portuguese meaning 'Good Saturday' had affected the social networking site Orkut on Saturday 25th September. The worm did nothing like post malicious links, rather it just left scraps from the infected account to every friend's scrapbook.
The scrap read simply 'Bom Sabado'. So the unwary users just viewed the scraps & then the worm affected their cache memory leaving them infected.
Google had asked the Orkut users to not login for a while and refresh their browser cookies & cache. It was also advisable to change the password and the security question as well.
Many users were however unfortunate enough to be online when the Bom Sabado worm attacked leaving their accounts hacked. Google has promised to look into this matter and try and fix the hacked profiles in Orkut.
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4 comments:
bug namely 'bom sabado' is spreading in the orkut.
these are the features.
1) Scrap which contains text as 'bom sabado' is sent from profile with out the knowledge of profile owner
2) those who opens the scrap gets infected.Some settings are automatically changed and pron communities are added to the profile with out the consent of profile owner.
3)The worst thing is that the profile owner cannot unjoin from these communities and cannot report this bug to Google..
you can delete the scrap by visiting m.orkut.com via google chrome as scripts don't work on m.orkut.com plz be quick and don't let thos bug spread.
The experts advise is to delete the cookies of your computer and change the password.
it will not be hacked :)
1. Change your password ASAP.
2. If you are not able to unjoin the random communities added to your profile by the virus, you can try switching back to the older version of orkut and then repeating this action.
I was able to unjoin all these random communities from the older version of orkut.
3. Do not visit any profile or community for the time being.
thanks google for fixing bom sabado
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