The big news today is about Twitter and the 17 year old kid who ruffled Twitter’s feathers.  Now he is having his 15 minutes of fame and who knows what else will follow with it.

There is nothing much to fear if you should come into contact with either of these worms according to posts on the techcrunch.com blog and on adjix.com.  However, like anything else, if you are not sure about an email do not open it.  I thought I had some difficult with the Mikeyy virus but did not get any emails from it.  My Twitter account seems to be doing fine, and the ones I have looked at today seem fine too.

Perhaps this is another reason why you should not just be adding anyone to your friend’s list, but be a bit more selective when choosing who to follow.

Worms are worms and hackors are good at what they do.  They know about coding.  I remember 9 years ago working with high school students in a computer class who were given their own room and basically left alone because they were more advanced in their computer coding knowledge than most of the teachers in the IT department at that time.

It is amazing what kids can do when they get bored and this is the same reason that the 17 year old gave for why he has Twitter all in a twizzy.

This is also why it is important to have people you can trust in your mastermind group when you are using he internet a lot.  I found out about the Twitter twouble from one of our Mastermind members, Dan S.  Thanks Dan!

I am going to quote and paste the text in here from Adjix.com about what to do if you are having trouble with anything that Mikeyy did to your Twitter account.

As Twitter said, and which Mooney confirmed, the worm is mostly harmless. No passwords or other sensitive information are stolen in the attack.

If you are infected, there is no cause for concern. Simply follow the 5 steps below to remove the worm from your account:

1. Go to www.twitter.com.
2. Log in to the infected account.
3. Go to “Settings” in the menu.
4. Under “Name”, remove the text in the field (which has been edited by the worm).
5. Remove the text under “More info URL”, which has also been edited by the worm.

When you completed those 5 steps, the worm is no longer active on your profile but you can get easily re-infected. For now, until the problem has been solved, BNO News recommends that you not visit any accusation  Twitter profiles.

Once again the worms were found not to grab anyone’s passwords.

If you get any notices on your Twitter about the virus do not go to the profile of the person who sent that notice.  That is supposed to be how it spreads.  At least that is what I have determined through what I have read so far.

Any comments or updates here will be appreciated.