John is a Salvation Army Corps Officer who likes computers, Radiohead and F1. He lives and works with his wife Marta in Gainsborough UK, and blogs at johnager.co.uk and johnager.org
This morning my Twitter account was infected with the Mikeyy worm, probably through a dodgy link. You can read about it on the Twitter Blog, so I don’t need to go into all that here, but this is what it did and how I dealt with it! It started sending out unauthorised tweets in my name and altered some of my settings. It seems that all I needed to do was change my name and website details back to the originals to regain control, so it is more of a nuisance than anything. It also deleted my personalised background to white! Grrr!
If infected you may like to change your password, although Twitter have given the assurance that no passwords, phone numbers, or other sensitive information was compromised as part of these attacks.
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More useful info here:
http://mashable.com/2009/04/12/mikeyy-another-twitter-worm-on-the-loose/
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