If you’re a Twitter user, I have little doubt you’ve seen the ominous warnings about the first of what will be many worms targeting the service. The StalkDaily or Mikeyy worm is currently making the rounds on the service for the fourth day in a row. Twitter is fighting the good fight, but the worm keeps mutating. How do you protect yourself? PC World has some good tips and specific instructions on removing the worm if you are infected.
As for avoiding Mikeyy? Most of those directions are common sense. Don’t click on any links related to StalkDaily or retweet any suspicious messages. Using a third party Twitter client (like TweetDeck) will help protect you. DIsable JavaScript if you have to. Change your passwords regularly. You know the drill by now. Twitter is just like anything else, and it requires the same precautions that every other web-based anything recommends.
It’s a shame that Mike Mooney couldn’t just let us all have one thing that wasn’t constantly putting us at risk of viruses, isn’t it?
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