Comments on: 'Best Video' scam on Twitter dropped malware

Weekend Twitter attack is fake antivirus scam and not a worm, Kaspersky Labs says.

[septa44]

I'm afraid this is going to be an ongoing problem with Twitter.

http://twitterbacklash.squarespace.com/journal/2009/4/16/too-trusting-on-twitter.html

[missingxtension2]

I think the real problem is that most anti virus scanner cant and will not remove the malware.
I was in the beta team of avira and when i notified them about that particular virus software was not being removed by their software they didn't care. Actually i dont know of a single antivirus so far that eliminates those problems. Maybe abcept manual removal with tools smith fraud fix, spybotsd, and dhohelper.

[shycelticwitch]

Virus? Malware? Worm? What are those things? LOL having been an Apple "FANPERSON" for the last 16 years, I have never experienced any of those....

[Mergatroid Mania]

That would be because there are not enough people using Apple computers to bother scamming.

You better pray that more windoze people don't switch, or the scammers will start targeting you too.

[shycelticwitch]

LOL I doubt it. MAC OS X is not the swiss cheese that Windblows is.... And don't give me the "Safari/Java" argument. Neither of those are required for me to operate my business, and they are not part of the standard operating system. When the MS zombies start waking up and discovering they want quality and stability instead of cheap and replaceable, and Mac sales go up.... it will only mean that the computing world will be all that much safer from hackenjerks.

[Austin_Mike]

Your ignorance and naivety is truly astounding.

[SpywareBlockers]

This shows how important it is to properly protect yourself from these types of attacks the best you can. Anyone that is not running antispyware as well as antivirus and firewall software programs on their computer is inviting this to happen to them. Now it's clear that even people who thought they never needed this kind of protection because they are very careful, or only visit reputable websites, also need to protect themselves.

[eastmanweb]

It wasn't specifically mentioned in the article, but can someone confirm that this particular issue doesn't affect Macs, even though PDFs are cross-platform?

[elinormills]

It does not affect Macs, only PCs.

[Wookiee-1138]

"Your're in danger?"

Sheesh, that should be a dead giveaway.

[Harrison912]

I mainly use Twitter to market my safety and security web site so this information is very important to me. Thanks, Elinor, for the report.

[SpywareBlockers]

Did anyone hear about the guy that was in a contest to hack mac's? He took the whole system over in about 10 seconds and Apple did not even know about it. He won the MacBook pro he hacked and $10,000. Even though I love my Mac, they are not bulletproof. It's just a supply and demand game. When more people use Mac's, the malware will follow. It has already started to, in a limited fashion. Twitter is going to be a constant target of attacks. It is a very juicy target for hackers. A lot of casual computer users making short/fast posts and not paying much attention.

[guvenlik-sistemleri]

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