Virus Alert!

[olde_fashioned]

I usually hate doing things like this, but I don't want any of my friends to get a virus, so I'm posting it anyway. Gathering from what I've heard from a few sources, apparently there is a bit of nasty Malware Virus spreading through the social networking sites...including LiveJournal. It targets communities, generating a mod-ish looking post informing the membership that the community is being closed, and then deletes all the community's entries. The post includes a couple of links which, when clicked, will infect the clickee, compromising their personal info as well as their f-list.

Bottom line, DON'T CLICK THE LINKS.

There is a screencap of just such a post HERE, and more info HERE.

I think it would be wise to alert the moderators of any communities you see displaying a post like this, to try and cut down on the number of people affected. Better safe than sorry!

Comments

[chloeandrudy.livejournal.com]

Why can't people just get a life, and put those skills to something fantastic instead of creating viruses? I heard about the "Failure to Deliver" by UPS, etc email and it's valid according to snopes.com. I checked it.
Thanks for the warning. I'll shoot them with my raygun.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Raygun, lol! *snort* Too bad it's not that easy.

[ladyneferankh.livejournal.com]

Oh--I remember hearing about this--thanks for the alert though!

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Yup!

[sabrinafair2.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

No problem!

[ladyneferankh.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I assume this applies more to facebook-but it seems related : http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nf/20090305/tc_nf/65095

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Ah, wonderful. *eyeroll* Thanks for the 411!