GOOD SATURDAY

If you are a frequent user of social networking sites then last afternoon has surely made you confused. You have got scraps from many of your friends saying the word "bom sabado". Yes, its not only you, this happened with thousands of  orkut users, and the situation gets awful when people find their own scrap saying "bom sabado" on their orkut friends' scrapbook!

What does the phrase "bom sabado" mean? Well, in Portuguese, this means "good saturday". But why everyone is posting this and most importantly how scraps are posting from one's account without his/her knowledge? I experienced the problem too. Moreover some new communities were added in my community list. Then Google enlightened me that "bom sabado" is a worm that attacked Orkut. and the virus infected profiles are automatically posting virus scraps on to the other’s scrapbooks and adding communities. This is not the 1st time when orkut got affected by a major XSS (cross-site scripting) attack, same virus attacked orkut in last February as well. Even the most happening social site twitter got affected by XSS attack last week.
What should be the next step for infected account holders? Experts advise to delete these scraps and communities and then to change the password for orkut. Users are also advised not to open Orkut account until the problem solved.
Well, apart from all these tech-talk we have to admit one thing, the name "bom sabado" suits the worm, it really made our Saturday funny and awfully spicy ;-)

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