Koobface Worm Resurfaces

In July a worm was found spreading through Facebook. It was essentially shut down by blocking the web sites that were propagating it. A NetworkWorld article this week says that the worm has resurfaced leveraging the Google Reader and Google Picassa tools available from....Google (duh!). According to the article "The links appear safe because they go to Google.com Web sites, but once the victim arrives on the Google Reader or Picasa page, he is invited to click on a video or a Web link. The victim is then told he needs to download special codec decompression software to view the video." Read the article for more information and make sure you have your antimalware and other security software up to date. More importantly, exercise both caution and common sense when clicking on links and visiting web sites.