One of the most popular social networking and web 2.0 sites on the Internet, MySpace and its millions of account may have become a target for numerous “scareware” and malware programs that may attempt to install themselves onto users’ machines.

According to The Register:

“Earlier this week, we highlighted a nasty scareware twosome where MySpace heaved up banner ads from AntiVirus Pro and DriveCleaner that attempted to install executable files on users’ computers. Following the story’s publication, numerous readers complained about the scareware pain. One reader even turned up a third questionable software load in the form of a program called ErrorSafe.”