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Re: mikeyy: Another Twitter Worm on the Loose

Jason Short — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:04:46 -0000

Lame, people will take anything and try to attack it. Why bother? Why not channel that energy into making something productive? Oh yes, because they are losers who prefer to tear things down rather than risk failure of their own ideas.

Best of luck to twitter - I hope they can find the guy and maybe return the favor to him

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misty_moons — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:55:16 -0000

Happened to me too, and I had the same follower, and about 5 others as it happened. I deleted posts made (100's of them) disabled Java, cleared cookies, temp files, history, and blocked those that followed me at the time of event. My followers have stopped following as they think I am a risk. (Well, a few, not all) 54321ana was the one I remembered, thought it was an odd kind of name. I didn't open the emails from twitter either re; new followers.

I did go and look at it spreading to over 100 people in 3 secs! If they all got 100plus posts made in their name, I am unsure of what anyone can actually do.

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Suburbia_Steph — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:39:46 -0000

Ugh! This happened to me today after I clicked on new profile following me called ana54321

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tartanangel — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:51:27 -0000

I hesitate to make comment on this 'cause the less limelight we give the little git, hopefully the sooner he will go away and rethink his life. ASIDE from costing me money with this juvenile nonsense - it is Friday night and now I can't listen to 'MusicTillMyEarsBleed' and that is REALLY annoying. Minor irritation in the grand scheme of things. Nae worries Mikey.

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bunnyhero — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:17:07 -0000

aaand it looks like stalkdaily.com is down now :)

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Kaspars — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:19:39 -0000

FAIL worm cartoon :) http://mindcream.com/failworm/

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Adarsh Pallian — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:33:59 -0000

Blog post on how to protect yourself in case you were effected by the Mikeyy worm: http://www.pallian.com

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Jim Connolly — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:20:42 -0000

Props to Pete and the crew at mashable for getting on this so quickly, and with some reassuring advice.

Nice work guys,

TheTechNewsBlog

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K N Ajit Narayan — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:46:00 -0000

Yes, one of my Twitter accounts also got affected. I noticed that my user name and more info line had changed and I had to correct the problem. Wrote a blog post on it too- http://twittergoogle.wordpr...

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Erika Fletcher — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:15:46 -0000

Update: Apparently TweetDeck users can get infected via the app.

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Leon Bacud — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:39:16 -0000

I've found a way to determine if someone is infected with this. If you mouseover someone's name in the web timeline and the tooltip comes up with html code, the profile that person's name belongs to is likely infected.

Re: mikeyy: Another Twitter Worm on the Loose

NDoubles — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:32:27 -0000

Now it's This is Twitters Fault ... or something of that nature...

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Enk. — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:11:27 -0000

Looks like #Mikeyy is back, with new annoying tweet messages. I can see my TweetDeck window Flood.
Today a new cool one was "RT!! 4th gen #Mikeyy worm on the loose! Click here to protect yourself: http://tinyurl.com/cojc6s" is also by the script :D.

People, Kindly do not click shortened URL in the tweets for time being. :)

Re: mikeyy: Another Twitter Worm on the Loose

sachxn — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:52:07 -0000

Hey Pete thanks for this info...I am very frustrated with this worm....

Sachin

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oetum — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:27:49 -0000

Thanks for the heads up, off to look at Seesmic etc.

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Claudiu — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:52:59 -0000

Or you can use twip.me, which is an IM twitter.

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Visalittleboy — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:27:27 -0000

Hello,
Thanks for the news!

Visalittleboy

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Guest — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:23:04 -0000

I had been catching up with follow-backs today, so was looking at profiles. I did not get the worm, but wanted to take precautions. So I did as one of the commenter's suggested, and went into Firefox and turned off cookies and javascript. Either I read what they said wrong, or I did the wrong thing - anyway - the result was that I could not login to Twitter, I got a 403 error: server understads your request: but is unable to execute request. I had stepped away from the computer to do something else in the interim, then wondered why it was not working. Finally remembered that I had made those two changes. I went back into Firefox tools/options menus and turned them back on; everything is fine now. Feeling foolish, but glad it was not some strange version of the worm

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Teddi — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:45:28 -0000

Wow, some people have too much time on their hands. That is just crazy. Luckily it is not malicious. I have not gotten it... yet. Thanks for sharing.

Re: mikeyy: Another Twitter Worm on the Loose

JY — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:23:59 -0000

thanks pete for the tip on the mikeyy worm, check out this link on justaskgemalto, it has tips and great basic information on the different viruses and worms out there.

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Sarah — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:22:07 -0000

This is seriously annoying me now :|

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Daynah — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:14:45 -0000

I think I'll stay off Twitter for this weekend. Hope they finish the fix soon!

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bunnyhero — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:52:26 -0000

yes, this was my point too.

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Facebook User — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:48:01 -0000

First worm was ok but second one in two days!

@seanyoughal

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GreenGordon — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:44:25 -0000

Isn't this a pretty serious crime?