Heysan is VIRUSSSS !!!

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 3:40 AM Posted by Sni

Heysan Link :- Its spreading fast and lot of things appear to be changing..like contact list being deleted, people in your contact list recieving link to heysan.com as if you are sending it..and much more. Until we find some solution from Google, People please be advised nto to open suck links.

For those of you who have been regularly using GMail, the recent arrival of unexplained chats from your friends might have piqued your curiosity. A chat lands up in your GMail Inbox claiming to have been sent to you by one of your friends bearing some sort of cheesy one liners and that you should click on the link to view them. Something like this:


Though usually I'm highly suspicious of these sorts of clicks, I went ahead and clicked it. (After all, Firefox, my favourite web browser has quite a decent track record as far as security is concerned).The site that opened up looked like:

There are all kinds of people in the world and some are likely to enter their Google ids and passwords due to ignorance. In my opinion, this site is a fraud that is directly and obviously obtaining access to userids and passwords of GMail accounts and using them to perpetuate a mass mailing campaign from within the comfortable confines of your GMail inbox. The fact that there exists a hidden link to admob.com (a highly SEOed advert site - see image) by means of a 1px x 1px image, bolsters my gut feeling about this site. Beware all of you who get a link to heysan.com - I think that its just the tip of a very large iceberg. Recent reports of a click based vulnerability in all browsers is a further cause for tension. Be on your toes everyone!



2 comments:

  Unknown

November 12, 2008 at 12:46 PM

To clarify, heysan is not a virus or any kind of fraud. Heysan is an aggregator for IM networks, just like meebo, trillian and adium. Heysan runs in your browser (optimized for your mobile browser) and lets you use your IM account on your phone. The first time you sign in to heysan, there is an option to let your friends know that you just did and also an option to skip that part. If your friend selects this option on Gtalk and you happen to be offline at the time, this will result in an email instead of an IM message, per how gtalk works. The message comes from your friend, heysan has not hijacked your gmail. Heysan does not install anything on your computer or phone, heysan does not abuse your login credientials to spam your contacts, heysan does not sell or in any way share your private information with anyone - all stated in our terms of use and privacy statements. Most importantly, heysan is a loved service and have a large, highly engaged community on top of the utility of mobile IM. Check it out, you might like it too.

Marie, co-founder of heysan

  Unknown

February 16, 2009 at 8:20 PM

By the way, the AdMob image is just a page counter.

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