Social Networks Attract Malware Authors

Looks like the Zanga attack on MySpace last summer was a bellwether. Tiny Tuba writes, "Parents and social network users have one more thing to worry about. According to a PC World article, increasingly bad guys are booby-trapping sites like My Space and Webshots with malware in the form of links, ads, bogus invitations to view pictures, and more." From the article: "Like pickpockets at a festival, money-minded malware authors are drawn by the huge crowds visiting social networking sites."

Oh no! My lacy bra just fell off of my first post!

[BeeBeard]

*downloads your bank account information*

in other news

[Bloke down the pub]

"Like pickpockets at a festival, money-minded malware authors are drawn by the huge crowds visiting social networking sites."

Huge clueless crowds gawping at $deity-knows-what and not paying attention.

Film at 11.

normal?

[User 956]

According to a PC World article, increasingly bad guys are booby-trapping sites like My Space and Webshots with malware in the form of links, ads, bogus invitations to view pictures, and more.

What, you mean that's not what normally passes for content on MySpace?

Re:a learning experience

[grub]

This will open up the way for Norton MySpace Security Only $29.95 a year!

Boobies

[truthsearch]

bad guys are booby-trapping sites like My Space

Lots of kids use MySpace, so please leave boobies out of this. Please think of the children. Thanks.

believe it?

[Phantom of the Opera]

Come on, these are the same people who fell for "this email contains a virus" before there was Outlook.
These are people who worried about a knock from the cops when their program performed an illegal access and had to be shut down.

Re:So...

[Anonymous Coward]

Members of the US Congress?

Advice for Parents

[spywhere]

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 myspace.com
127.0.0.1 webshots.com
127.0.0.1 aol.com
...
...
...

The kids will hate it, but they're not the ones who pay me.

Re:speaking of social networks

[secolactico]

There are over three billion women in the world and none of them want to have sex with me. That, my friends (*), is rejection.

You can always try men... or animals.