Bom Sabado! Orkut Bug

Few hours back I got few scraps from my friends just saying “Bom Sabado!” The first thing which I did was translated it to see what does it means and its was written in Portuguese saying “Good Saturday!”

However this message was coming from friends who were not knowing Portuguese that made me suspicious to investigate on it. Then on further research I came to know that Orkut has been attached by a bug.

 

Symptoms of bug Bom Sabado!

1. Automatically  messages are been sent to all your friends saying “Bom Sabado!”
2. Automatically  you would be added to few numbers of communities few are shown below.

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=106691341
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=106698628
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=558494
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=6
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=106698808

 

Precautions / Workaround

1. Do not log-in into Orkut till the issue is been solved.
2. Change your passwords.
3. Change your securities questions and answers.
4. Clear your browsers cookies and cache.
5. Use the old version of Orkut and remove the communities which has been added without your knowledge. But once this has been done do log out again to be on safer side.
6. Use m.orkut.com if you cant take your hands off from Orkut
7. Disable the JavaScript of your browsers

As this issue has been passed on to the Orkut team, hence let us hope for the best and let the team do their their job to clean up this mess as soon as possible.

Any more workarounds or solutions to this issue would be useful for others so do share your suggestions with us.  

Bug in Orkut Co-owner Community

All the Co-owner of Orkut community please check if you are able to work on your co-owner system. As Orkut Help team is investigating about it and they think there is a bug in it.

So Orkut team has requested if your co-owner system is not working in your community then please fill the form with relevant information so that they can investigate this bug.

Source: Orkut Help

Credit: Dhivya

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New Orkut Bug ! Have you been deleted from your friends list ?

Yesterday one of my friend called me up and asked me that some of his friends in his friends list are not appearing , but they can see him in there friends list. I suppose many of you may be suffering the same issue. So I suffered about it and got to know that it may a new bug in orkut and the orkut team is working on it.And if its a new type of bug then it will take some time to be solve.

They have been informed and this is what they say about it:

Now all we can do is to wait and let the orkut team do there work.

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A WORM named SCRAPKUT is fast targeting Orkut users

How dose a WORM named SCRAPKUT targeting Orkut users ?

1) A malicious scrap message which is posted to victim’s scrapbook.

2) Clicking on the link, redirected to some malicious website which prompts you to download the file “flashx_player_9.8.0.exe” disguised as a flash upgrade.

3) The victims whole system comes under the virus attack.

4) When a user visits Orkut and starts a session from the infected system, maindwxp.exe injects Javascript code into the active Orkut web session and executes in context of the Orkut domain and user authenticated session.

5) And your friends end up getting fake mails (ones you never sent) from you, which starts over again.

The cyber security wing of the department of information technology (DIT) has suggested all Orkut users refrain from downloading any fake link to YouTube video looking as if it is from a known member of its friend list, The active Orkut virus was tracked on Friday last week while other viruses have been active on several other social networks for a few weeks now.

Similar attacks on Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo! MediaGrid have also come to light in recent weeks. On Facebook and MySpace, the user may be caught unawares while uploading photographs. After executing the malicious binary code, disguised as flash memory, the Scrapkut virus downloads further binaries-windosre-mote.exe, logservicess.exe and win32chekupdate.exe - to perform malicious actions on victim system. The downloaded file logservicess.exe copies itself as maindwxp.exe to different locations to ensure its execution on every start-up of infected system.

Here's how you can PROTECT YOURSELF

1) Orkut users should remain cautious while visiting any link provided in there scrapbook.

2) Keep anti-virus and antispyware signatures up-to-date.

3) And most important of all do not visit untrusted websites.