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A while back I posted a blog entry on MySpace about the new MSPLinks link filtering solution they have been haphazardly rolling out. In it, I said: “MySpace took a huge step in the right direction by hiring an outside company [MarkMonitor] to implement a system to screen outgoing links added to your pages, comments, etc”. Everything in that entry is correct besides the assumption that MarkMonitor was providing the solution.

Correction: MarkMonitor is not involved in the MSPLinks service, but is the domain registrar used by MySpace for domains including msplinks.com.

MarkMonitor does in fact offer anti phishing solutions and whatnot. I just didn’t bother digging deep enough to see that they are also a domain registrar. I’d blame my buddy Sean over at SocialHam since he was the first to post that info, but I made the same assumption before I even read his blog entry about it.

Whoops. :P

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Imagine being told that you’re sick when you’re not, a quack doctor forcing some symptoms to show, and then being charged for a Cyanide pill to treat your nonexistent ailment. That’s the gist of what’s going down on MySpace at the moment.

This thing is being passed around in the same fashion as the MySpace Adult Content Viewer BS that was infecting tons of people not too long ago…

1. Tons of fake MySpace profiles are setup.
2. Said profiles have a clickable image overlaying them to entice people into downloading a payload of evilness.
3. A friend adder bot is used to send out a couple hundred friend requests from those profiles every day.
4. People visit the profiles to see who the got the friend request from.
5. The end.

For a detailed look at how the Cyanide is administered, PaperGhost has a play-by-play posted on SpywareGuide.

For everyday MySpace users, the bottom line is that you shouldn’t click on this image when you see it plastered across a profile.