- Kyle E.

How did the virus get its name?◦From the owner Samy Kamkar.

What does the virus do?◦Would display the message: "but most of all, Samy is my hero”.

How many people/computers were affected?◦1 million + My space accounts

How do you prevent this virus?◦Disable javascript

What was the impact?◦ Social

What was the virus writers thinking?◦ He was using it to farther his knowledge in Ajax,

and java What should you do if you get this virus on

your computer?◦ Nothing… You can’t get the virus on your

computer…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(XSS) http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-

10-14-n81.html http://web.archive.org/web/

20060208182348/namb.la/popular/tech.html

http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/10/14/126233.shtml?tid=172&tid=95&tid=220