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Security software maker Finjan Inc. released a free browser plug-in on Tuesday to help users avoid clicking malicious links in Twitter that could lead to spyware and malware. The software is called SecureTwitter and is available as part of the Finjan SecureBrowsing plug-in <<a href="http://securebrowsing.finjan.com/">http://securebrowsing.finjan.com/</a>>  for Firefox and Internet Explorer. The timing is good, as just today Panda Security put out a warning about malware links in Twitter’s Trending Topics < <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/06/21/twitter-trending-malware/">http://mashable.com/2009/06/21/twitter-trending-malware/</a>> . Panda said to avoid “Twitterbest” and “Zasaden” in Twitter Search, as those are known to contain links that jump to malware sites. Finjan CTO Yuval Ben-Itzhak said “Reading the recent reports about the proliferation of tweets containing criminal malware, we have taken immediate action to release the SecureTwitter plug-in which is powered by Finjan’s Secure Browsing as a free download to all users.” 9 application/xml false blogging computer services computer services in Vail High Country Computer Services Inc. social media twitter High Country Computer Services Computer services in Vail http://www.highcountrycomputerservices.com Vail Valley Partnership Business resource for the Vail Valley http://www.vailvalleypartnership.com Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 kjohnson 63.225.107.68 false true false false true 198512 false false true false false false true 235704 Resource 198512 173239 209695 1246880899144 1250520989895 Controlled RE: One that should go to all Twitter users, but a blog entry would be nice - Avoid malicious links in Twitter, free browser plug-in

It seems that the Twitter worms themselves were relatively benign. What’s obviously not benign is using Web sites touting the cure to hide real malware. Sadly it’s an effective propagation method that takes advantage of users who are already having computer problems. My article, “Minimize risk when downloading from the <a href="http://www.microsoft-certificate.com" title="microsoft certifications">microsoft certifications</a>” triggered a lot of  discussion about this subject, with members presenting many good ideas for avoiding this type of scam. 10 application/xml false Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 119.152.58.253 false true false false true 190655 blog blogsite/VailValleyPartnership/web