What to do when you know your myspace profile has been hacked

What to do if you think your myspace profile has a virus...

December 2006

First: change your password . This is very important: it ensures that whoever hacked your profile can't do more damage than has already been done. I'll repeat that: change your password. Make sure the new password isn't used on any other important websites, like your mail, paypal or your online banking account.  

Second: deleting any code that isn't yours . This is the hard part. Why is it hard: the people who install new code on your profile know code. You probably don't. Below are some code-examples, but new code could easily look very different and still be harmfull. 

So the safest way is to delete all code you don't understand from your profile. Examples of code that should not be on your profile: 

Your profile may have a new menu-bar that looks like this:

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If so, the code that causes this looks something like: 

<style>
div table td font {display: none;}
div div table tr td a.navbar, div div table tr td font {display: none} 
.testnav {position: absolute; top: 136px; left: 50%; _top: 146px; }
</style>
<div style="margin-left: -400px; width: 800px;" align="center" class="testnav">
<a href="http://www.somethingorother.com/something.htm" class="navbar">home</a>
... 10 lines like the last ... 
</div></div>

Delete all of that.

As said: it may be easier to just delete all the code you don't understand and start over with a new profile-look.

Www.myspace.com is a popular site, but you do need to take responsibility if your page looks hacked or you see stuff on there that you did not put in there.