PSA

[pauraque_bk]

There are a couple of destructive memes going around.

If you see a form written in Russian with a bunch of usernames, don't put in yours.

If you see a post with nothing but a link that says "This is very interesting", don't click it.

These memes exploit a hole in LJ security and automatically post to your journal. There's some discussion on closing the hole in lj_dev here.

If one of these memes already got you, clear your cookies and change your password.

EDIT: Having read a little more about this problem, my advice is not to put in your username anywhere except LJ's own pages until this issue is resolved.

Comments

[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

Being a sad, sad geek who knows HTML I quite often correct the code of the handful of memes that I do cut and paste, so I know what you mean about the iffyness of some of the code. Also, I guess I'm just naturally suspicious.

Incidentally, can I take this opportunity to say how much I adore your current default icon? Darn, Peter's just adorable there. Squeak squeak.

[pauraque]

Only sad geeks know HTML? Uh-oh, I'm in trouble. :)

And thanks -- he is adorable, isn't he?

[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

Nah. What I mean is that I'm both sad and a geek. :-)