now...for the myspace words of warning
(Standard Lite newspaper)
Users of the popular MySpace website have been warned by computer experts that viruses linked to the interactive site, which boasts more than one million regular users, are in circulation.
Experts believe that hackers have hit the hugely popular site and say the viruses in circulation can change settings, delete files, secretly track users' movements online and even damage computers.
They believe that the hackers have hidden dangerous software on the site which means that computers can be attacked unaware to users while they are just viewing pages.
"There is a very real threat to users of MySpace, and in fact we have already seen several MySpace specific viruses emerge," Graham Cluley of computer security company Sophos told the Standard Lite newspaper.
This was discovered the week of December 5th, 2006- I am sure it is fixed by now, but be careful, these things happen more often than not.MySpace was attacked by the Quickspace worm that abused an alleged "feature" of Apple QuickTime movie files to inject and execute malicious javascript in user profile pages. The malicious code attempted to phish accounts and to offer spyware to an unspecified number of users with obvious hopes of financial gain by the perpetrators. The primary cause that made the attack possible is not a MySpace flaw, but rather an Apple QuickTime feature that is clearly a security vulnerability. (
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-122006.html)
Here's another example: July 19th, 2006http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/07/myspace_ad_served_adware_to_mo.htmlHacked Ad Seen on MySpace Served Spyware to a Million
An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows, according to data collected by iDefense, a Verisign company.