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Feb 16
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“The blogosphere simply loves to slurp up social-networking traffic stats, and on Monday we got a nice tasty serving of them with some new numbers from Compete.com for the month of January,” says CNet News.
“The results? Facebook is in the lead, with about 68 million unique visitors, well ahead of MySpace’s 58 million. (The two are pegged at 1.1 billion and 810 million page views, respectively.)”
Close to the bottom at #21 is Google’s Orkut, used principally in Brazil and India, but it has another distinction.
Like many other sites on the list, , too, is now being used by cyber criminals to carry malware that can compromise a victim’s computer, says Trendlabs.
“Spoofed emails which claim to be from Orkut inform the recipient that their account has been found fake and is doing illegal activities such as sending out spam to other Orkut members,” it says, giving as an example:
Problems with your profile.
Dear user,
Your profile was reported to be containing illegal information, and will be blocked in the next 48 hours.
You are probably using non-authorized or copyrighted information.
To see all the information and instructions required to normalize your account, click here.
This will be the last notification sent from our system, and in case you do not perform any required action, your profile will be blocked definitely.
ATTENTION: your request will be analyzed by our team and will be subject for approval.
To get more details about your profile, download the software below:
Recipients, “are given 48 hours to and activate of their profile by clicking the given link,” says TrendLabs, adding:
“Upon clicking the link they will be redirected to a website where they are prompted to download a file which is found to be a malware detected as TROJ_DLOADER.WKV.”
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Orkut joins the Malware gang
