Google quickly stomps on Orkut worm

Talk about social networking sites and you probably think Facebook, MySpace and possibly LinkedIn. The chances are, unless you happen to be Brazilian, the Google social networking offering Orkut has managed to evade your radar altogether. Orkut is, however, hugely popular in Brazil and that’s why it was mostly Brazilians who were among the 750,000 members to find themselves on the wrong end of a worm infection within the space of 24 hours.