Destructive Koobface virus turns up on Facebook
BOSTON (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.
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Facebook’s note to it’s users: We’re currently helping our users with the recently discovered “Koobface” worm and phishing sites. If your account has recently been used to send spam, please visit one of the online antivirus scanners from the Helpful Links list, and reset your password here.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:14 am
If you think you have been infected, you should immediately run a virus scan using one of these sites:
* http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
* http://security.symantec.com
* http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/scan.asp?affid=56
* http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8
* http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm
* http://ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
* http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan
* http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan
December 5th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
UPDATE: PC mag has a great breakdown here:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/155017/facebook_virus_turns_your_computer_into_a_zombie.html