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Fake, Malicious Official Orkut Email – Don’t Get Screwed!

Situation – You get an email from accounts@google.com. The email describes your account activity as inappropriate and threatens to terminate your Google account within 72 hours. You are further advised to navigate to a link for further instructions. You navigate to that link and get something...

Security Alert – Twitter-Orkut Users Hit With Infection Links

Spywareguide is reporting a situation where infection links are being sent to twitter users. Twitter users who are also registered with orkut are at a greater risk since the links are malicious in nature.

I am Unable to Perform Any Action on Orkut. What’s Wrong?

I have seen Orkut Help Group flooded with this issue where an orkut user complains that he is unable to perform any action on orkut. Though orkut help group provides them a standard reply but i feel the reply is usually unsatisfactory since it does not point out the exact threats that could have landed...

‘Orkut is Banned You Fool’ – How to Get Rid of This Foolish Virus?

Nitin, a colleague of mine was facing a very odd problem. Whenever he typed orkut.com in his browser, an alert came up displaying this message.. Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didnt write this program guess who did ?? MUHAHAHA!! It was an very unusual problem and since i had never experienced...

Virus, Keylogger In Your Scraps?

A Virus, Keylogger is on your way, the latest bad man tool on orkut. Most of the time, it is hyperlinked with the an image of a video player (refer screenshot above). If you click on the image it redirects you to a site which tries to install something on your computer. Norton AntiVirus detects it as...
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