Facebook Virus: Koobface Virus
In my previous article “Facebook Virus: Facebook Users Under Attack By a Vicious Virus/Worm“, Facebook Virus Koobface is currently attacking millions of Facebook users. As an update, the Facebook virus Koobface is still on the loose and has yet to be cured by Facebook, MySpace and MSN. Koobface is the new virus sweeping across these networks and Facebook virus removal and preventive measures should be taken by users to avoid infection or further damage.
According to Reuters,
Facebook’s 120 million users are being targeted by a virus dubbed “Koobface” that uses the social network’s messaging system to infect PCs, then tries to gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers.
It is the latest attack by hackers increasingly looking to prey on users of social networking sites.
“A few other viruses have tried to use Facebook in similar ways to propagate themselves,” Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said in an e-mail. He said a “very small percentage of users” had been affected by these viruses.
“It is on the rise, relative to other threats like e-mails,” said Craig Schmugar, a researcher with McAfee Inc.
Koobface spreads by sending notes to friends of someone whose PC has been infected. The messages, with subject headers like, “You look just awesome in this new movie,” direct recipients to a website where they are asked to download what it claims is an update of Adobe Systems Inc’s Flash player.
If they download the software, users end up with an infected computer, which then takes users to contaminated sites when they try to use search engines from Google, Yahoo, MSN and Live.com, according McAfee.
I will update this post later and indicate what the Facebook Koobface virus is and what are the measures suggested by Facebook in dealing with the virus.
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