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

[spug.livejournal.com]

The memes are not able to get your password, and are not dangerous. See the answers to the following support requests as a reference: http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=294736

They're annoying, but let's not resort to hysteria. Nobody's getting anyone's passwords :)

[pauraque]

What I posted was not "hysterical". Changing your password after something like that is just good sense.

[spug.livejournal.com]

No, no, I didn't mean that your post was hysterical. We just don't want to create hysteria all over LJ over something that frankly is pretty harmless.

[pauraque]

If you don't think I'm contributing to the hysteria, then don't imply that I am. I don't appreciate it.

[spug.livejournal.com]

Of course you don't. I apologize.

[pauraque]

Accepted. No harm done.