{"id":50,"date":"2010-09-26T14:11:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T14:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sherinsunny.wordpress.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2010-09-26T14:11:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T14:11:50","slug":"bom-sabado-worm-is-fixed-by-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxmaster.in\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Bom Sabado Worm is Fixed By Google !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Google !!<\/p>\n<p>This is to inform you all that we\u2019ve contained the \u201cBom Sabado\u201d virus and have identified the bug that allowed this and have fixed it.  We\u2019re currently working on restoring the affected profiles.  Thanks a ton to each of you who\u2019s made an effort to alert everyone else about this. I\u2019ll make sure to keep you guys posted on more updates\u201d  The worm Bom Sabado which has a very ironic translation into Portuguese meaning \u2018Good Saturday\u2019 had affected the social networking site Orkut on Saturday 25th September. The worm did nothing like post malicious links, rather it just left scraps from the infected account to every friend\u2019s scrapbook.  The scrap read simply \u2018Bom Sabado\u2019. So the unwary users just viewed the scraps &amp; then the worm affected their cache memory leaving them infected.  Google had asked the Orkut users to not login for a while and refresh their browser cookies &amp; cache. It was also advisable to change the password and the security question as well.  Many users were however unfortunate enough to be online when the Bom Sabado worm attacked leaving their accounts hacked. Google has promised to look into this matter and try and fix the hacked profiles in Orkut.   Read more: http:\/\/www.dailylatestnews.com\/2010\/09\/26\/bom-sabado-worm-orkut-fixed-google-029589#ixzz10e1rvDoS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Google !! This is to inform you all that we\u2019ve contained the \u201cBom Sabado\u201d virus and have identified the bug that allowed this and have fixed it. We\u2019re currently working on restoring the affected profiles. Thanks a ton to each of you who\u2019s made an effort to alert everyone else about this. I\u2019ll make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxmaster.in\/?p=50\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bom Sabado Worm is Fixed By Google !&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-unix","category-virus-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxmaster.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxmaster.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxmaster.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxmaster.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxmaster.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linuxmaster.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxmaster.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxmaster.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxmaster.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}