Google has published a note about the latest Bom Sabado Virus attack happened on Orkut last saturday. The note says “we’ve contained the “Bom Sabado” virus and have identified the bug that allowed this and have fixed it.” So now its safe to head back to your favorite orkut profiles.

The Google has also given some tips for affected profiles even though they are working on restoring the affected profiles.

However, please remember that in any case, if you ever find any suspicious activities on your Orkut profile, please clear your cookies and cache and change your password immediately :

https://www.google.com/accounts/

Also, avoid clicking any unknown/suspicious link while logged on to Orkut!

That file is actually a trojan horse that will download a host of nasty files from the Web and infect your computer with them. Email security firm MX Lab explains further:

“Bredolab is a trojan horse that downloads and executes files from the Internet, such as rogue anti-spyware. To bypass firewalls, it injects its own code into legitimate processes svchost.exe and explorer.exe. Bredolab contains anti-sandbox code (the trojan might quit itself when an external program investigates its actions).”

The way to avoid this one: if you didn’t request your password from Facebook, there’s no reason you should be getting a password reset confirmation email, so don’t open it. Further, even if you did, Facebook would not send your new password as an attachment. Finally, f you’re still not sure, take a look at the full details of the email – if the mail server’s don’t belong to Facebook, you know the message is not legit.