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Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. Dave maintains four weblogs: The Business Blog at Intuitive.com, Ask Dave Taylor, Dave On Film, and Attachment Parenting Blog. Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and frequent guest on radio and podcast programs.

Twitter "virus" via video, I don't think so!

I don't get it. Are people really this clueless in the social media world?

I woke up this morning to boldface warnings New virus on Twitter! Don't click on video links in DMs!

Of course, it didn't take long for me to get one:

Being the reckless tech guy I am (and running on a Mac, not PC, so far, far less susceptible to viruses), I clicked on the link anyway, and got this:

Ah, okay, so, duh. Here's an easy rule of thumb:

Never share your social media credentials with other sites!

Surely you, dear reader, aren't so daft that you'd click on a link to see a video and then blindly log in to what appears to be Twitter to do so?

Btw, if you're curious, enter random user credentials on the phishing (NOT virus!) login screen, then you'll see a failwhale screen, then you'll be bounced to some random blogspot.com blog that doesn't even have an entry.

Posted by Dave Taylor at October 14, 2009 9:27 AM

Comments

Thanks for posting those screen shots.
Good to know it isn't a virus.

But how did that twitter account get compromised to send you the DM in the first place?

I've gotten 2 today - didn't click anything.
I thought it was unlikely that TPC sawgrass had video of me since I hadn't been there in years....
cheers

Posted by: mike on October 14, 2009 2:46 PM

How do you fix it?

Posted by: S Sullivan on October 14, 2009 5:35 PM

Not sure what you're asking, Sullivan. If you've gone onto this site and entered your Twitter credentials, go NOW, not in ten minutes, to the twitter site (TYPE IN "twitter.com") and change your password.

Posted by: Dave Taylor on October 14, 2009 6:23 PM

here，I can not get a password.why?thank you

Posted by: Kate on November 16, 2009 11:25 PM

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