It's social networking at its finest. Experts say social networking users can expect more threats to travel virally -- what infects one person will then infect everyone on his or her friends list.
One recent example was the Orkut worm, in which a prankster spread a spammy message to almost 400,000 Brazilian with profiles on the site. However, experts say that other rapid, self-replicating viruses will likely be more malicious, designed to steal or delete users' personal information like date of birth and passwords. That data can then be sold in numerous black market economies or used to acquire credit card and bank information. Often the same login credentials used on Facebook and MySpace are also used to access banking and other sensitive accounts.
