[Dejibo]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62G5A420100317

It was reported by McAfee, that there is a new virus that is attacking Facebook.

You get an EMAIL instructing you that your facebook information has been changed, and it asks you to CLICK on the link in the email.

PLEASE DONT Click Links in Emails unless you are positive you know who it came from. It unleashes at least 10 virus programs that STEAL your passwords, and it hopes to recover bank/stock/financial passwords.

Please keep your antivirus up to date, and use MalWareBytes.com its a FREE program. It is to be used WITH your current antivirus program. do a quick scan once a week or so, and you will be impressed. I frequently find after playing on FB I am infected. MalWareBytes finds it everytime, even when my normal virus program doesnt.

I have seen Nortons/McAfee/AVG/Avira/ and so on, report a clean scan, and then malwarebytes rings up 12 virus' after a visit to FB.

I hope you are all being super careful after playing there. its a fun place, but like going into a school full of infected children, you must wash your hands when you get home. Be safe.

[DM]

Thanks Dej! Another way the virus (Trojan worm) is working through FB, is that it appears you are getting an email from a FB friend that has a You Tube attchmt. Don't open the attachment! It will also come up on your FB page.

I got an email like that from a friend who hasn't even been online; in fact~she hadn't even touched her pc in days. People on FB started questioning it and lo and behold, she had nothing to do with it..

Then, someone who works in the computer field came on and said DO NOT open it, as it was the virus trying to infiltrate.
I tell ya~ it's scary....

[SallyC]

Hmmmm..with Friends like that, we don't need enemies, huh?..

[doydie]

I don't know how the U-tube thing happened but it took my whole friend list and daily sent them many vidoes. I was so suprised that almost all of my friends kept with me. After the first day they all knew not to click on them. My son in law who is in IT came up and cleaned my computer. I also worked with face book security. I felt terrible for weeks about what "I" put on peoples computers. I mean there are children that click on these things. Some of the names of the videos were cute and then others were just down right R rated. It was at Christmas time so some of them had Christmas related titles to them. Thoses hackers are smart.

[SallyC]

Wow, Doyds..

[Dejibo]

if you are going to use the computer, you MUST be prepared to face the "virus". I take care of computers for some of this town's elderly. I am impressed with how many virus' these folks have! They visit we love God.com and email their grandbabies. They call me to say their computers are frozen, and wont work. I arrive to find a mess!

Even in what you think is the safest of places, bad people want to muck about, and mess things up for the rest of us. Just be careful. If you dont know who sent you that funny email...DELETE it! If it has a link...DONT click it!

Sometimes just the act of opening your FB is enough to open that dreaded page that says "you've been infected! click here to fix it!" wel...THAT is the virus! DONT CLICK! its gonna unfold itsself and eat your computer. It looks very real!

Have good protections in place. Tons of free ones out there, but add layers of protection. Antivirus/antispyware/Antispam/Malwarebytes Snag um coming and going.

If your friends get infected, and something ends up on your plate. Hug your friend, and tell them you understand. it happens to the best of us.

[hollym]

I never, ever click on a link in any email informing me something was changed on an account. I go directly to the original site and check it out. I actually got the FB email and didn't even open it, just hit delete.

I actually never click on any FB email link (updates to threads or message notifications) or any of the links for updates from here. I just go to the site itself and I can see the notifications there.

People try this with banks, Ebay, Paypal, and other things, too. You get an email that a password or something was changed, people freak out and click on the link that takes them to a look alike site and then the trouble begins.

I, too, run an antivirus as well as malwarebytes and also ad-aware (also free). You can't be too careful.

[hollym]

Originally Posted by Dejibo

Sometimes just the act of opening your FB is enough to open that dreaded page that says "you've been infected! click here to fix it!" wel...THAT is the virus! DONT CLICK! its gonna unfold itsself and eat your computer. It looks very real!

My son fell for that one. It took me a couple of days to clean that out of the computer.

[Dejibo]

Malwarebytes.com has a FREE version that will remove that fake alert trojan thing that pops up. it can make quite the mess of things. im glad you recovered from it.

[hollym]

Originally Posted by Dejibo

Malwarebytes.com has a FREE version that will remove that fake alert trojan thing that pops up. it can make quite the mess of things. im glad you recovered from it.

I wasn't running malwarebytes on that computer when that happened. Now, I am.