Warning: Facebook Virus!
by rally on Mar.03, 2009, under general
Apparently there’s a worm/virus making it way through Facebook right now. You get a private message from one of your friends, telling you to go watch this particular video. Once you click on the link, the site tells you your Adobe Flash Player is out of date and needs to update, and once you download the “update,” you get the virus.
The next step the virus does is scan your compute for cookies with login credentials (such as your Facebook user/pass) and logs onto those accounts and spreads itself again.
Read more about it here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10113981-2.html
March 4th, 2009 on 9:59 am
Ouch! I always wonder what programmers get out of writing viruses like that…