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Offline BehindBlueEyes

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Worms loose on Twitter.com
« on: September 21, 2010, 07:38:36 AM »
This is the article, but the most important thing to remember is:
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Most of the worms were using onmouseover techniques, meaning it was enough to move your mouse on top of a malicious Tweet to resend the malicious message to your followers.

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002034.html

To protect yourself:

log out of Twitter
Use client programs to access Twitter instead of using twitter.com
Turn off Javascript