Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Annoying Friendster Comments - Beware Friendster Virus

To all Friendster users! Are you familiar with this Friendster comment? A picture showing a girl with the text saying their webcam is ready and available. Or even a picture of a cute chipmunk, with a “Play” arrow sign on the center, making you think it is an embedded media content (video). Luring you to click on it and initiate the virus script without you knowing.

friendster virusAbove is just a sample of the many annoying Friendster comments that one of your friends has sent you, or worst yet, you have also sent it to all your friends. This type of Friendster comment is a virus, and must not be accepted or displayed on your profile to prevent it from spreading. It is an automated script that when clicked will direct you to their website and use your profile to comment on your friends profile on Friendster automatically, therefore continuing the chain without you knowing it. And it would even put your computer at risk to harmful viruses.

Things you can do to help stop the spread of this malicious annoying Friendster comment script and protect yourself.

  • 1. First you should disable auto approve comments on your Friendster settings. This will prevent the comment to be displayed on your profile automatically.
  • 2. If you happen to receive from one of your friends these type of comments. Delete it right away, don’t even dare to click on it.
  • 3. Tell the person thru a message that his profile is infected with a virus / malicious script and advice him to change his / her password right away. Send him the link to this web blog and let him / her read this article. Tell all your friends about this annoying Friendster comments. http://istaylsugbo.blogspot.com/search/label/Friendster
  • 4. Delete suspicious comments on your profile if ever you find one.
  • 5. Lastly, you should change your Friendster password right now.

We all love Friendster because it connects us all. Let us not tolerate this type of people who abuse Friendster. Do your part and spread the word.

2 comments:

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  2. I want not approve on it. I over nice post. Especially the designation attracted me to be familiar with the sound story.

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