MySpace Phishing Attack Leads Users to Zango Adware

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday December 2, 2006 @05:13AM from the movies-that-add-something dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Security site Spywareguide.com reports that a new worm is doing the rounds on MySpace. Taking advantage of the HREF feature in Quicktime movies, a fake login bar is displayed on infected users profiles via some JavaScript coding. If you login (via one of the many hacked servers hosting the JavaScript and movie file) you'll find you start spamming messages containing a pornographic movie. That movie leads to a site that's pushing Zango Adware left, right and center. Is this more evidence that Zango has yet to clean up their affiliate networks?"

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YOU FAIL IT by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-02 05:29 · Score: -1, Troll

already dead. It is 7heir Parting
Failzors. by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-02 05:40 · Score: -1, Troll

Luck I''l find theorists -
Ep!K! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-02 05:45 · Score: -1, Troll

Are almbOst
Re:Quicktime is the problem? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-02 06:27 · Score: -1, Troll

It "needs to be done" about as much as we need to spray some remote swamp because the mosquitoes there are inconvenienced by fungus.
Re:How do you get rid of Zango? by russ1337 · 2006-12-02 06:41 · Score: 0, Troll

You can download the patch here