Novocained » Worm http://novocained.com Another dose of Technology!! Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:26:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Fake Twitter Invites http://novocained.com/hack/fake-twitter-invites/ http://novocained.com/hack/fake-twitter-invites/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:01:20 +0000 Aditya http://novocained.com/?p=174 If you are not a Twitter user, this implies more to you. Symantec has warned internet users about malicious email from “invitations@twitter.com” which contains an attachment. If this attachment is downloaded extracts email addresses from your computer and then copies itself to shared folders and removable drives.

The subject of this e-mail is “Your friend invited you to twitter!” similar to the mail that is actually sent fro Twitter when a friend invites you, but the original Twitter mail does not contain any attachment. This attachment is name Invitation Card.zip for deceiving users but it actually is W32.Ackantta.B@mm – a nasty, email address-harvesting worm.
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Surprisingly this has got nothing to do with Twitter, or does not even target its users. It just uses the popularity of Twitter to spread :) . Simply delete such mails without downloading the file.

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