Facebook virus

[DJBOOBY]

A Facebook virus is sending messages to other users without you knowing you sent it here what happen if you install software from message

The phoney page asks the user to install a video player upgrade.

Installing the fake upgrade allows the worm to work its magic and access files on the victim’s machine while destroying their Facebook account.

The trojan comes just months after Facebook said it was working to protect its user from phishing scams.

Facebook has begun combating the virus by deactivating link when it can.

Facebook has not released an official comment regarding the attack.

you can tell it fake by the address it meant to be youtube site but if you read address bar it yuotube and it ask to install a plugin or software

[bd-850]

i had this the other day, but i thought WTF why do i need to upgrade so i closed it

[Josh_Emerton]

Where the hell is that quote from? Provide link please.

[DJBOOBY]

my bad wrong quote (older virus) should of look at date but it the same deal ask to install plugin for video player to see video

[aspir3]

Does it only affect face-book? I hate face-book as my wife spends hours on it at a time and it means I cant check club cj. This virus may fix my problems. I saw the message last week and ignored it.

[Josh_Emerton]

I'm just amazed by the amount of spelling/grammer errors in the "extract" from news.com.au. Meh, it goes without saying tbh, if you're on the internet just be careful.

[scraverX]

I love my Mac, and my firewalls.

[DJBOOBY]

I love my Mac, and my firewalls.

the thing is it comes as a email that look like a facebook email from one of your friends even tho your friend did not send it asking you to look at something think my was "look at you big booty in this video"
once you clink on link it open a page that look like youtube but if you look at address bar it has yuotube
it ask you to install a plugin to see video after this im not 100% what it dose as i spotted the scam (page did not look right ) but as for the one that do click on it it installs a worm of some kind.
so a firewall will not protect you if you open plugin as for Mac you may be safe not !00% if it infect macs

[scraverX]

Depends how the file/link works. Mac has a Unix core kernel so they're completely different to PC's. Key example, there's no such thing as .exe files.

Snow Leopard also has multiple levels of checking when things install, especially off the net. An example here, Windows never asked me for my admin password to install a Windows update. Mac's do.

I'll keep an eye out for it though. I don't get many emails from FB and I'm generally very careful about links.

[The X]

Hate Mac users, clueless evangelists. Just as bad a religious zealots.

Now on a more serious note, yes there has been a FB "virus" for ages. It uses FB email to spread itself, usually through a friend's compromised account so "they' can send you an email asking to click on a LOL worth email. However when you click, it asks you installed a plug-in so you can view the video. It's the installation of the plug-in that does the damage, hijacks your FB account so it can then send email to your friends list to view the same video, and so on and so forth with their friends, and their friend's friends.

Basically do not install anything. Trust no one.

[scraverX]

I'm not a Mac user... exclusively. I have a couple PC's too.

Wouldn't say I'm clueless either. Every PC I've had in the last 15 odd years I've built myself. I just got pissed off by Windows and Got a Mac for everything but Games.

lol at the whole FB virus... thankfully most of my friends on FB also know what they're doing.