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Virus writers are Targeting
micro-blogging sites like Twitter,
Facebook, and MySpace.
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Viruses
Targeting micro-blogging sites
If you aren't up-to-date on these social networking sites,
they are a form of blogging using very short text messages, are
structured on different themes, and offer a variety of interesting
features.
There are hundreds of social sites, but among the micro-sized ones...
Twitter currently appears to be the leader and it's easy and
fun to use.
After creating an account, you publish your micro-contents (140
characters in length) using your web browser, cell phone, or the
email client. You can also follow interesting people like friends,
artists, athletes, bands, politicians and check out their insights
regularly. |
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Last year, the creator of
the popular news ranking site Digg launched Pownce. Besides
micro-blogging, Pownce provides functionality for sharing files,
events, and links.
The site Tumblr is simple to use and you can publish photos
and videos from your cell phone. Even if you are not wordy, you will
be able to share your love and hate with others.
If you prefer talking instead of writing, use MySay.
You call the MySay service and leave a message. People in your
contact family will be able to listen to your thoughts using their
phones, emails, or computers.
If neither text nor audio is to your liking, you can use Hictu
for video micro-blogging. Use your webcam to video your actions and
publish it in Hictu with the click of a mouse.
IRateMyDay has an interesting angle to the
micro-blogging. Instead of publishing mundane activities of you
daily life, you rate your day on a scale of Worst to Great. You can
also give some explanation for your rating.
Are you emotionally upset? Instead of using IRateMyDay, use
EMotionr. If it is one of the happiest day of your life, rate
it the highest possible 10. Don't rate the lowest at number 1. It
can't be that bad.
After rating your day or emotion, head towards Moodmill. This site
is for managing your mood. Use the mouse to slide the mood indicator
and share it with your friends and contacts.
If you are more comfortable with French or German language, you can
use Frazr. It has all the features and functionality of
Twitter.
But - Be Careful!
In addition
to becoming addictive time wasters, they offer great, and increasing
opportunities for your computers to become infested with a variety
of malware.
Social networking continues to grow in
popularity. Communities of friends are created made up of people you
know and many new friends you meet on line.
Cyber crooks exploit the tendency of the friends in these
communities to trust links from each other.
If you get a message from a friend on Facebook, for example,
inviting you to watch a funny or tempting video youll probably click on the link and watch it. Your trusting nature could
lead to your computer becoming infected with a worm virus which
installs itself by asking you to update your version of a program,
like Adobe Flash Player.
Only problem is you are not really installing the Adobe Flash
Player, you are installing the virus instead when you click on the
link to upgrade the 'program'!
As of this November 2008, this virus (named
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Banload.sco.
by
the Internet
security firm
Kaspersky Labs) has been linked to friend's messages from
Myspace, Facebook and Twitter.
You do not need to download any programs to view
YouTube videos. If you are asked to download any kind of
software to watch a video, just ignore that link!
.. Richard Rossbauer
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