Unix Sysadmin » twiter http://www.sysadmindayph.com/blog SysAdmin Blog, TechTips and Reviews Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:36:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Mikkey Worm – This worm is getting out of hand Twitter http://www.sysadmindayph.com/blog/the-mikkey-worm-this-worm-is-getting-out-of-hand-twitter/ http://www.sysadmindayph.com/blog/the-mikkey-worm-this-worm-is-getting-out-of-hand-twitter/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:41:12 +0000 elizar http://www.sysadmindayph.com/blog/?p=137 Continue reading]]> “This worm is getting out of hand Twitter” – Mikkey. There was a swarm of messages flooding the twittersphere in the past couple of days. This twitter worm apparently hasn’t been controlled yet by twitter as the flood of messages that apparently coming from Mikkey, continues.

I, myself, lucky for me haven’t been pested by this Mikkey work as it only affects those who uses the web application of twitter (apparently). I use a third party web apps for firefox (twitterfox).

Here’s another way of protecting your self from this Mikkey worm from startupmeme.com:

Other steps that you can take to ensure safety is to reset your password, disable Javascript and clear cache. You can also keep a check via Twitter Status Blog or follow @spam for further updates. This is very bad for Twitter’s reputation especially when FriendFeed is getting better by the day. I would simply hate unwanted messages in bulk bothering me or my followers.

Steps to fix it:
1. Change your hex color/reset it
2. Change your bio and change the URL
3. DONT click on any profile that is suspicious and use another twitter client like TweetDeck instead of the Twitter website

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