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.
This is a repost from my MySpace blog. The only reason I posted it here also is the tidbit of info I added at the bottom.
MySpace still thinks it’s a sweet idea to let every freaking employee run around with “delete user privileges”.
“If you give rank-and-file employees the power to delete profiles, it’ll fuck everything up,” [LoLo] said. – XFanz
This account has been deleted / restored three times over nonsense. Kevin from Pointless Banter went through the same BS once. And, my future ex-wife friend Alyssa currently has the record with somewhere around 10 trillion deletions / resurrections. Countless others have been deleted and had to start over with new accounts or just say “Screw you guys, I’m outta here”.
Here’s the latest “we is do be the stupiderest” deletion made by what had to be a regular rank and file kid over at MySpace….
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The not-so-cute image to your left has been spammed all over MySpace via comments for months now. It’s generally posted from legit accounts that have been phished. And, it’s hyperlinked to a php file that prompts a person to download a payload of evilness when clicked. My buddy PaperGhost has dissected this toad three times now. Why three times? Asshats like to change up the payloads of poo they’re spreading from time to time. Zango and all sorts of other craptastic (technical term for “Evil Evil Bad Bad”) stuff has been bundled in this download every time. As an added bonus, it has a neat little thing built into it to phish your MySpace account info so it can spam itself from your account.
Bottom line: When you see it, you should “Run, Forrest! Runnnn!”.
PaperGhost’s latest dissection:
ProfileWatcher: The Saga Continues
Random tidbit:
The Department of Defense started blocking access to a ton of social networking sites and whatnot. So, our boys and girls over in that dreaded sandbox can no longer visit MySpace, YouTube, etc… They claim that this is being done due to bandwidth (money) and network security issues. That’s obviously a big load of BS. Sean from SocialHam.com summed it up pretty well.
Safe guards are important to protect our troops however its pretty clear they are also concerned about stopping the next Abu Grab picture/video leak
~ SocialHam.com
Protect our troops? Yeah, that’s the big one in my eyes. The DoD would have been shunned as assholes if they stated the obvious though… Yes, it’s inevitable that one of our troops would have pulled a retarded Geraldo Rivera move on YouTube or elsewhere.
“Hey Mom, we’re going raid that little village over there tomorrow. Wish me luck!!!1″
I told you so:
Really, I did. From a recent post of mine on MySpace:
Will there still be spam on here?
Yup. You can expect a lot more spam profiles and messages with the whole “You’re Cute!!! My MSN and AIM name is WebCamDoubleDD, hit me up sum time”. So, you can all have more hot sex talk with bots about monkeys.
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Last night The X-Generation of Smileys messaged me with what I assumed to be total BS / lameness…
Check this out, there’s a profile with a Gucci bag spam comment from Tom.
I’ve seen fake Tom comments, bulletins, blog entries, and forum posts on MySpace a zillion times. The better ones use various CSS / HTML hackery to make his avatar link back to his real profile and everything. So, it’s not uncommon for MySpace users to think that spam is being posted from Tom Anderson’s real account. The guy who sent that message over isn’t an eTard though, so I checked out the profile in question via the blog that first posted the link.
After looking over the source of that page, I can assure you that the comment spam was posted from Tom’s real account.
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