Beware Of Scrapkut Virus!

How dose a WORM named SCRAPKUT targeting Orkut users ?

1. A malicious scrap message which is posted to victim’s scrapbook.
2. Clicking on the link, redirected to some malicious website which prompts you to download the file “flashx_player_9.8.0.exe” disguised as a flash upgrade.
3. The victims whole system comes under the virus attack.
4. When a user visits Orkut and starts a session from the infected system, maindwxp.exe injects Javascript code into the active Orkut web session and executes in context of the Orkut domain and user authenticated session.
5. And your friends end up getting fake mails (ones you never sent) from you, which starts over again. 

 The cyber security wing of the department of information technology (DIT) has suggested all Orkut users refrain from downloading any fake link to YouTube video looking as if it is from a known member of its friend list, The active Orkut virus was tracked on Friday last week while other viruses have been active on several other social networks for a few weeks now.
Similar attacks on Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo! MediaGrid have also come to light in recent weeks. On Facebook and MySpace, the user may be caught unawares while uploading photographs. After executing the malicious binary code, disguised as flash memory, the Scrapkut virus downloads further binaries-windosre-mote.exe, logservicess.exe and win32chekupdate.exe - to perform malicious actions on victim system. The downloaded file logservicess.exe copies itself as maindwxp.exe to different locations to ensure its execution on every start-up of infected system.

Here's how you can PROTECT YOURSELF:

1) Orkut users should remain cautious while visiting any link provided in there scrapbook.
2) Keep anti-virus and antispyware signatures up-to-date.
3) And most important of all do not visit untrusted websites. Read more on this article...

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Add AOL,Hotmail and Yahoo Friends in ORKUT

You wished you could add your friends having other then Gmail account in your orkut friends list ....Then your wish has been granted !!!
Now Google’s social networking site Orkut has added a new feature, that lets you to “find friends from non-Gmail account". You can find friends from your address books on Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL.
How to do that?
1) Login to your Orkut account.
2) Just choose the email provider (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or AOL), from the drop down which is on the left- hand side bottom corner of Orkut home page as shown below.

 

3) Enter the user name and password for your email account, which you have selected as the email provider in the step 1.
4) Orkut will then show you the contacts from your address book.
5) It will also show who are already on orkut.
6) The best part is that you can invite friends in bulk. Now that's a great feature in itself , what do say ?
If your email provider is not on the list, don’t feel left out, Google is working on adding more.
Note : The email provider list is not country specific, so find your friends no matter where you are, or where they are. For example, if you have a hotmail.com.in or yahoo.co.in email address, simply select “hotmail” or "yahoo" from the drop down. Remember, orkut values your privacy and security and will never store your password nor transmit it over non-secure channels.

So say my HI !! to your friends ....

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How To Lock Selected Orkut Albums

Few days back orkut added a new feature which is one of its kind to privacy of albums. So from now you can manage the albums you want to share with everyone in your network or with all of your friends only. This can be done in two ways as follows :

# First way :-
1) Login to your orkut account.
2) Then click the Photo link which is under your account name.

3) Click the Edit button of the album you want to edit as shown in the snip shots.

4) Choose your option to whom you want to share the album.

5) Then click update button.

# Second way :-
1) Login to your orkut account.
2) Then click the settings link which is on your left hand side screen ( Show in the Snap Shots)

3) Click on the privacy tab.

4) Now in allow content to be accessed by: you can restrict who you want to allow to access your content which can view scrapbook, write in scrapbook, videos, testimonials, feeds and albums.
5) When you select albums as choose individually then you will have a new drop box below it.
6) In the new drop box you can select the choice of options for all the albums individually.

7) After all the changes just click the save changes button under it.

Now you can share your personal or family photos with your friends / love ones and as well keep it away / secured from strangers too at the same time. Read more on this article...

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New Orkut Community Search Feature - Now search orkut communities country wise

Few days back if you all have noticed that the Community Search is working by Country wise. That means if you are from United States and searching for a community it will search that community in your country and then the other country. Before this was searching by Language wise which used to search by the language dose not matter where are you from.

Due to this change of new Orkut Community Search Feature many of the orkut user’s are facing lot of problem searching for the communities all over the world. And why shouldn’t they be mad where is the link that the community owner who made a Brazilian football players community should have more fans from Brazil only why not from other country’s ?

" The users are just asking the orkut team why is this Community Search Feature is by Country wise why not Language wise as before? "

I just want to ask the orkut team that “Is Orkut a social networking site or not ? If yes then why this Country wise Search ?" Read more on this article...

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