The Scrapbook’s in Orkut now have a warning flashed over the top. This is a step taken by Orkut to reduce spam as well as virus attacks on users of Orkut. The warning reads:
Warning: Please be careful when clicking on unfamiliar links in scraps or other parts of this site that navigate away from orkut.com.
Apart from this I also noticed at certain places Orkut removed malicious looking links out of the scrapbooks. Now this certainly reduces the security concerns of orkut. But then I feel, its a step by google to avoid any more lawsuits. The warning basically tells the users, its not googles fault if their computers crashed or they got abused by an external link in a person’s scrap book.
Screen shot (click to enlarge):
Update:
Pallab informs us that the warning is because of a new type of Malware which is targetting users inside the Orkut.com community, stealing their login details to online banking sites, dumping them into a Botnet and trying to spread automatically via their “scrapbooks”. Thanx Pallab
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Nope. You are mistaken. It was added a day after a bot exploiting orkut was discovered.
Read http://blog.spywareguide.com/2006/06/datatheft_malware_targets_goog_1.html
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Hi,
I am currently using orkut and facebook i always choose orkut as my regular usage..
Because orkut was really nice social site and this article giving me info about orkut so i really like it..