Orkut Bom Sabado Virus and how to prevent it

Today Orkut got badly infected by Bom Sabado virus (meaning Good Saturday” in Portuguese) and for some time it became the trending topic in Google Trends.


Bom Sabado-Google Trends

How it works?
When any one opens a orkut page that is infected by this worm,a javascript will run automatically on that page. Your browser will be hanged for some minutes or seconds. That script will automatically join you some communities.


Some of the communities you can see are :
Community ID numbers: 106698808
558494
106698628
106691341


After joining communities it will send scrap to your friends with text “Bom Sabado!” with a iFrame code which load that javascript again for your friends and they will join communities and send links to their friends.

For Preventive measures you can do the following:

* Change your password .
* Delete all of your cookies .

If you want to use Orkut then follow these steps :

Open your Host file with notepad :

Windows 95/98/Me C:\windows\hosts
Windows NT/2000/XP Pro C:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Windows XP Home C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Windows 7 – C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Add this code at the end
127.0.0.1 tptools.org

127.0.0.1 www.tptools.org

127.0.0.1 convites.001webs.com

Also, you can Noscript Firefox plugin to stop running any script on your page . Install the script from here
.

Orkut has disabled creation on new topics on communities for the time being .

If you have any problem do Mail me