If you're addicted to Twitter and cannot help but post micro-updates throughout the day, then avoid visiting the site directly. This weekend a worm was running rampant on Twitter and now a new version of the worm is continuing to spread. Both worms spread via Twitter profile pages and shortened URLs that are posted by the worm to the Twitter streams of compromised accounts. Some of these links point to StalkDaily.com (DO NOT VISIT THIS SITE), a site that according to some reports continues the infection. Rather than checking Twitter via their website, simply use one of the multiple clients available for the service (we recommend TweetDeck), which as of yet, appear to be immune to infecting your Twitter account. 

According to Twitter's official blog post yesterday regarding the weekend attacks, no account passwords, emails, or other private information was compromised by the attacks. There have been no updates on the Twitter blog as of yet about the new worm, Mikeyy—named after Mike Mooney, the 17-year-old owner of StalkDaily.com who claims responsibility for this weekend's attacks—which continues to spread on Twitter. However, Twitter's official @spam Twitter account noted in a post 4 hours ago that they are aware of and addressing the current Mikeyy attack, and that they now believe it is under control.

Should you find that your Twitter account has been compromised, PC World recommends that you empty your browser cache and turn off JavaScript, then log into Twitter and delete any messages your profile automatically posted that contain the word "Mikeyy". After that is done, turn JavaScript back on to change back your bio, URL, and color scheme. Although Twitter claims that no passwords were compromised by the worm, it would probably be a good idea to change your password. Security experts are projecting that more variants of this worm will continue throughout the week.

As all variants of the worm spread via a Javascript exploit on infected profile pages, you should turn JavaScript off before visiting any profile pages on Twitter, and you should also avoid clicking links that you're unsure of in Twitter for the time being, especially if they appear alongside the word "Mikeyy."

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