Malware over MySpace

This is Internet logic: Within a week of HitWise's announcement that MySpace is the US's highest-traffic site we hear of a worm and a hijacked ad affecting millions of MySpacers' computers. The worm – the second one to hit MySpace, reportedly - won't hurt the family PC, but it's an annoyance and you'll probably impress MySpace users at your house if you know about it. 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. The file replaces the visitor's own 'About me' content. The solution is to delete a line of code from your "About me" box. Symantec says what that code is on this page. The second major annoyance was a banner ad for DeckOutYourDeck.com on MySpace and other sites that "used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows Internet Explorer," the Washington Post's security blog reported. Users that keep their PCs patched and already had a security patch Microsoft sent out last January were unaffected.