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New Social Malware hits the street


As social malware goes, this is a good delivery mechanism for getting people to click on links. Most of us have learned that clicking on links from people who you do not know is generally not a good idea. Spinning up the social aspect of malware delivery, using MySpace and Facebook friends should result in a better penetration of the malware because we are used to clicking on links from our friends.