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AN EVIL USE FOR USER NAME THEFT
Dec 27, 2006

I COPIED THIS FROM THE SPARLKE TAGS BILLBOARD -IT IS A WARNING FOR ALL SITES AND INTERNET USERS -HUGS ~LORELEI

Rumors are spreading around that our sites sparkletags and mstags are infecting people and having their accounts from MySpace deleted... This is NOT true about our sites doing this... There are layout type sites that are the ones that are spreading the worm/virus throughout MySpace. What is happening is the people that are getting their profiles infected/high jacked and what happens is the virus sends out spam bulletins using your account info... bulletins like sexual, pornographic, adult related... once MySpace catches you doing this they will delete your profile... but these people are not the ones doing it... it's the infected ones that are... My daughter was one that was infected and we were wondering why she was posting bulletins about pornographic material, so we monitored her account very carefully and even when she was next to us a bulletin had posted on her account.. we know she didn't do it, she was right next to us! so we changed her password and checked her profile out for the QuickTime exploit which I will explain below, so I would be very careful on where you get your layouts or even images for that matter because you never know what code your putting into your profile...

When you copy and paste a code... don't just copy and paste it... look it over... if you see somewhere in the code that it has a script with something .mov in it do not use it! there is an exploit going around that is causing this worm/virus to infect people and doing this to them... It is not us doing it, if you look at our code... our code is strictly just to show the image and have a link back to our sites.. that is it.... if you don't believe us, copy our code that is under each image and paste it in someone’s email that knows html and ask them or just ask them to look at it from our site to make sure it's clean... and they will tell you it is... We are in no way shape or form trying to do something this stupid to jeopardize or website traffic over this BS....so please pass the word and let people know it is not sparkletags.com or mstags.com spreading this nasty worm/virus!!!!!

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Posted: Wednesday December 27, 2006, 10:54 pm
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White Wolf H. (468) 		Wednesday December 27, 2006, 11:09 pm
Thank you for that very important information.

JoAnna B. (476) 		Wednesday December 27, 2006, 11:39 pm
Thankyou so mch for letting us know .JoAnnaB.

Purple J. (19) 		Thursday December 28, 2006, 10:06 am
Hugs and thanks for the info.

Karenlee H. (553) 		Thursday December 28, 2006, 1:43 pm
Yahoo is also doing it, do not open any file/URL that you receive in Messenger window...It will say it is from your friends list and have a URL saying, I have new pics, it has happened to a few of my friends there. I got one of the URLs in messenger, deleted it, then IM'd my friend and asked, did you send me that, no, was the answer, beware..I don't know why people do this but they do...

Poetic Warrior (126) 		Friday January 12, 2007, 4:58 pm
The .mov problem is not the only one to worry about.

There are .gif and .jpg as well as nearly all graphic or sound files that can lead to malicious code being used within them.

The moral of the story??

DONT use or send any type of uninvited graphic/sound files.

That includes COMMENTS, TESTIMONIALS or NMs.

This site is no better than any and in fact is unproven to be secure in the matter of file transfer.

Yes!! I AM Paranoid and will remain so as long as C2 remains the greatest single cause to my PC troubles which still cripple it.

I wont bother to list all the details of the MULTIPLE dangers.

I`ve done that and it went like a fart int the wind.

I`ll only say.... Do your homework and hope for the best.


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