Yesterday evening there was a buzz by Sathya about worm named BOM SOBADO. She wrote that it was a worm that would write a scrap in your orkut scrap book. If you try to reply it, your account will be hacked. But I didn't think it was true. I simply logged in my orkut account and searched for scraps. But unfortunately or fortunately there is no new scraps :-(. And I wrote a comment to her buzz as there is nothing like that and that may be a rumour.
But today morning I received forward messages to my mobile about Bom Sabado as it is a orkut hacking virus. So I immediately googled it. I never found any official announcement from Google. But there was a post about Bom Sabado and some people discussed on it. Also a person wrote that he saw such a scrap in his orkut scrap book. So it may be true. But some people says its now fixed and no more threat.
But whatever, if you saw any such scrap named as Bom Sabado, do the following...
- Delete all your scraps (may leave some important scraps but at-least the suspicious one)
- Sign out from your Orkut account or close the browser window
- Now open your browser once again and delete your browser history, cookies, saved passwords and also temporary files.
- You better run an anti-virus program. (But this is optional)
- Restart your browser and login your Orkut account and enjoy.................
Yeah. Its right. The worm Bom Sabado is existing. It works through JavaScript. It adds an entry in your browser's cookies. Using that it hijacks your session. So that your account is hacked. So if you delete all the current cookies and restart the browser no trace of that worm will be in your computer. Now you can change your password (for safe) and enjoy orkutting.
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