With MySpace being in the top 5 most visited sites on the Internet, it’s easy to understand why hackers and malware developers target it. This new MySpace worm tries to infect people by making them click on artificial MySpace profiles. Here’s a tip for all you MySpace users: if you notice that the entire profile looks like a clickable link, leave it immediately. Chances are it is either a marketing ploy or a profile trying to install malware on your system.

A complex, ongoing attack on MySpace.com users is turning victim’s sites and computers into hosts for serving phishing scams and computer viruses.

Earlier this week, some MySpace user pages were seeded with computer code seeking to exploit one of three recently-patched security holes in Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. MySpace visitors who browse one of these pages are redirected to a fake MySpace login page aiming to steal the visitor’s MySpace user name and password.[more]

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