{"id":137,"date":"2009-04-13T21:41:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T13:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2009-04-13T21:41:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T13:41:12","slug":"the-mikkey-worm-this-worm-is-getting-out-of-hand-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/the-mikkey-worm-this-worm-is-getting-out-of-hand-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mikkey Worm &#8211; This worm is getting out of hand Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This worm is getting out of hand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/twiter-twitter-everyone-twits\/\">Twitter<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; <strong>Mikkey<\/strong>. There was a swarm of messages flooding the twittersphere in the past couple of days. This twitter worm apparently hasn&#8217;t been controlled yet by twitter as the flood of messages that apparently coming from <strong>Mikkey<\/strong>, continues.<\/p>\n<p>I, myself, lucky for me haven&#8217;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).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another way of protecting your self from this <strong>Mikkey worm<\/strong> from startupmeme.com:<\/p>\n<p>Other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/04\/13\/twitter-worm-woes-continue-fourth-round-of-attacks-by-mickeyy\/\" target=\"_blank\">steps<\/a> that you can take to ensure safety is to reset your password, disable Javascript and clear cache. You can also keep a check via <a href=\"http:\/\/status.twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter Status Blog<\/a> or follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/spam\" target=\"_blank\">@spam<\/a> for further updates. This is very bad for Twitter\u2019s reputation especially when <a href=\"http:\/\/startupmeme.com\/friendfeed-our-with-new-updates-real-time-is-just-what-we-needed\/\" target=\"_blank\">FriendFeed is getting better by the day<\/a>. I would simply hate unwanted messages in bulk bothering me or my followers.<\/p>\n<p>Steps to fix it:<br \/>\n1. Change your hex color\/reset it<br \/>\n2. Change your bio and change the URL<br \/>\n3. DONT click on any profile that is suspicious and use another twitter client like TweetDeck instead of the Twitter website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This worm is getting out of hand Twitter&#8221; &#8211; Mikkey. There was a swarm of messages flooding the twittersphere in the past couple of days. This twitter worm apparently hasn&#8217;t been controlled yet by twitter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8,189,192],"tags":[205,188],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-news","category-tips","category-twiter","category-virus-and-microsoft","tag-mikkey-worm","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sysadmindayph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}