Seems like there is a pandemic worm infecting some websites out there. First, it was some scripting flaw in Paypal, now we have some worm infecting a friendship website at orkut.com
This particular worm is an innocuous link to a picture that is placed in the comments column of the user. When the user clicks on the link, it leads to a blank page. Meanwhile, the worm minhasfotos.exe, commences execution, installs two additional files winlogon_.jpgon, wzip32.exe, on the user’s computer and gathers the necessary information.
Sales director, Kartik Shahani, McAfee, an anti-virus provider, said that the potential risk faced by a user from such a worm depended on the degree of protection provided for the computer. "Most users do not realise that when they access a website, their computer may store crucial information like ATM identification numbers and passwords. As a result, criminal hackers can access data with ease, with the help these worms."
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