2007-11-02 18:17:07 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet ➔ MySpace
only if you click on a link that has them. sometimes spam gets in too, but you just have to change your password. I've spent countless hours on myspace and never had a problem.
2007-11-02 18:32:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very easy. The easiest way to get it is to open an email from someone you don't know on myspace messages, or clicking on a link in a bulletin that a friend has posted. The ones that I have seen lately are free Macy's gift cards and free ringtones. Both are spyware and will mess you up if you click on them. Avoid clicking on anything that seems free or anything that seems like an advertisement and you won't get anything. I never have, but I am an antivirus researcher and have found two recent spyware apps in those messages.
2007-11-02 18:22:54 · answer #2 · answered by helper999 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I honestly don't have any clue what the answer is to this question.
And I will keep checking in because I would like to know the answer to this.
However, I do know ways your computer can get bugs in ways that involve myspace.
If you own a graphics site or you have a very big myspace account with lots of people on it you are probably involved in "w4w and s4s" and you have lots of friends who post bulletins telling you to add people or bulletins with "trains" on them or links to other websites.
Or you may encounter a fake myspace.
A train is something on myspace that get's you lots of adds, however, sometimes they require you to enter your e-mail and password and they hack into your account. Once they do that, they leave spam comments and messages to all your friends. (have you ever seen a comment or bulletins posted about "profile trackers"? That is a spammer. they have hacked into that persons account. There is no such thing as a "profile tracker.")
Or, if you click on a link that takes you to another page, it may have a cookie tracker on that webpage, (if it is off of myspace, i suggest not clicking it).
A cookie tracker, if you run into one, reads your cookies on your computer. (saved passwords, etc.) and then the owner of that cookie tracker can hack into anything that the cookie tracker read. You may also click on a link that will take you to a page with a virus on it.
All I have to say is:
Be safe.!
2007-11-02 18:26:15 · answer #3 · answered by x.vegetarian animal lover.x 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can definitely get bugs from Myspace from people's pages and bulletins. The easiest way to avoid it is to have your settings adjusted to where you have to approve each and every comment before it gets posted to your page, and once you start getting the Macy's card or ringtones comments from one of your friends, stay away from their page. (You can message them and let them know they need to change their password and to be careful, as long as you don't actually go to their page...get to them through your inbox and an old message). Also, if you use the Firefox browser (which everyone should, 'cause IE's a pain, lol) there's a plugin you can download called Adblock plus that can help keep pop-ups away.
2007-11-02 19:18:29 · answer #4 · answered by Elizabeth B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Myspace itself cannot. It is some, and let me make this clear, only *some* users, that do this. Most of us are regular people, just wanting to meet new people from around the country, and around the world, to talk to.
A few of us are independent bands, artists, film makers, etc, who want a fair chance at success, without all of the corporate greed and BS of Hollywood and big record labels.
2007-11-02 18:27:58 · answer #5 · answered by oweaponx 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I haven't had any problems with myspace bugs...so i think there are probably some, but i haven't been "attacked"
I really don't know how to answer this question!!
sorry!!!
Hope that helps!!!
2007-11-02 18:53:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-30 15:55:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure can i had to redo my laptop 3 times because of myspace needless to say i nolonger have a myspace page
2007-11-02 18:22:07 · answer #8 · answered by lilchevy406 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Alot of people say yes but i have spent alot of time on myspaceand never had a problem.
I run my spyware program everyday as well as my AVG antivirus.
2007-11-02 18:21:29 · answer #9 · answered by doc_holliday1863 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
um not sure cause i never had that happen to me before. why dont you ask tom
2007-11-02 18:51:19 · answer #10 · answered by statecalifornia2009 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋