The Torjan Virus is on the walls of everyone at facebook!
Not a good day at the office for me! A massive and deadly Facebook scam/virus is attacking the walls and inboxes of me and all my friends :( Now ofcourse there're two kinds of facebook users, "The laymen" and "The tech geek".
My advice for the Laymen :P : Guys and girls! This is important! If you reveive any facebook message or link with a questionable subject line , do not dare to click on the links found in the bodies! These questionable titles are like "Hey! You're great!", "Your ass look's not bad in the video", "Someone has a hot crush on you ", and other links like "Hey ! I can see you Shall we hang out? ". These links lead to a serious trojan virus and we strongly recommend not clicking on these links or otherwise the consequenses maybe very harmful or embarrassing.
Now for my fellow tech geeks out there! ;) This trojan virus is actually a trojan worm which sort of hypnotises people, showing them that the mail is from facebookmail.com, where as it actually originates from a dangerous scam network! People of all ages , especially young people including young boys and young girls are enticed to click on the picture or video links , mostly because these links are made attractive either by using nudity, seduction or some money making techniques! Once a user click's on one of these scam links , what happen's is that , strange nude video and other dangerous links are posted on the walls and inboxes of all users in the friend list of whoever clicks on such links. One user clicks on suck a link and the link gets delivered on his or her's behalf to all the friends in the friend list , and the chain goes on and on. This is getting embarrasing and dangerous! Has your privacy been so insecure ever on facebook as it is now? You can leave an answer in our weekly polls !
Now what the virus actually is in software terms. Recently, antivirus giants Symantec declared that this trojan virus works through a worm called W32.Koobface.A that searches for cookies in the user's machine.
On finding the appropriate facebook cookie, the user's account and profile settings are automatically modified. This results in links to malicious sites being created on the walls and inboxes of our buddies without us even knowing anything! Our only fault is that we clicked on the link! The link mostly looks like a youtube video link. The link is made nude or convincing by other means, and the users are attracted to clicking it. On clicking it, the user is taken to a page where he or she prompted to install a video software to play the video :O. This completely fools teh user! This is a fake installation and installing it does the trick for the scammers! On installing it the files and settings of the user are breached resluting in his or her's facebook account getting destroyed!
The sad thing is that so many users are clicking such links everyday which is resulting in an increase in this trojan virus which is spreading lightning fast all around the world's facebook! And the even more sad thing is that there has been no official comment or reaction by facebook regarding the situation!.
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