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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

AOL's PC security for the home

It won't hurt the family PC, but it's an annoyance for MySpace users, and you'll probably earn points with your kids if you know about it as soon as they do. The "Spaceflash" worm compromises the "About me" part of their profiles and infects visitors to their pages, CNET reports. "When a logged-in MySpace user goes to another member's 'About me' page affected by the ACTS.Spaceflash worm, they are quietly redirected to a URL that holds a malicious Macromedia Flash file," according to CNET. "That file, in turn, will replace the visitor's own 'About me' page [presumably the code in it] with one that is compromised." The solution is to delete a line of code from your "About me" box (click on "Edit Profile" in your Hello box and look for the offending code in the About Me text box). Symantec specifies what that code is on this page. This is MySpace's second reported worm so far.

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