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W32/PinkRen-A

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Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 24 August 2009 04:12:21 (GMT)
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W32/PinkRen-A is a XSS worm which targets a specific Chinese social website renren.com.

W32/PinkRen-A spreads via vulnerable post on renren.com which includes a video which promise to show the "Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here video" result in the malicious javascript to execute and allow the worm to propagate.

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