Article: Twitter worms no threat to users of Kaspersky Lab products; Net-Worm.JS.Twettir has no sophisticated functionality and does not steal personal data.

M2 PRESSWIRE-21 April 2009-Kaspersky Lab: Twitter worms no threat to users of Kaspersky Lab products; Net-Worm.JS.Twettir has no sophisticated functionality and does not steal personal data(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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Abingdon -- Kaspersky Lab announces that its products successfully detect all versions of Net-Worm.JS.Twettir that recently spread on the Twitter social networking site.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and receive short text messages. The malicious program Net-Worm.JS.Twettir began spreading on Twitter on Saturday, 11 April.

The worm used ...

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