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Facebook Users Attacked by Trojan Virus

blog.schipul.com — Facebook and its users are having a rough day. A serious Facebook virus is attacking the network’s users.

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 8, 2008

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  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -10/+451Facebook transition to Myspace
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  • GeckoSlayer, on 11/08/2008, -4/+382Digg transition into 4chan
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  • inactive, on 11/07/2008, -22/+260Failbook
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  • droogieca, on 11/08/2008, -3/+218How dumb do you have to be to click a link that says “Some0ne thinks your special and has a *Hot_Crush* on you. Find out who it could be*”
  • Schooley02, on 11/07/2008, -13/+176Trojans can F**k you in more ways than one.
  • jaytea90, on 11/08/2008, -8/+140Facebook transition to Skynet
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  • dharasick, on 11/08/2008, -1/+92Today?? This was happening like 5 weeks ago.
  • belcorriko, on 11/08/2008, -40/+112Thank goodness for Mac OS X...
  • gingerboy, on 11/08/2008, -1/+68yeah I got a FB message (with about 40 other recipients in the to field) with exactly the same thing - I responded to the group telling them not to click - then spent the next few days going round to peoples houses to fix their PC's!

    STUPID USERS ARE ALWAYS STUPID.
  • Corr0sive, on 11/08/2008, -2/+66Give me your facebook login information, and i will install an anti-virus for you.
  • securitymonkey, on 11/08/2008, -24/+82OLLIE?
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    Thanks Ollie. Coming up next... Are your tennis shoes conspiring against you?
  • thegoodsteer, on 11/08/2008, -1/+56Honestly, it amazes me how people are stupid enough to fall for these phishing scams. Especially when the domain name is different an the e-mails are obviously spam. Video codec upgrade? That's the oldest trick in the book!
  • antispammer, on 11/08/2008, -1/+50Length of an inch
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  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -3/+52Now I have to separate the fake “your ass looks not bad in this video” messages from the real ones.
  • ErrorLoading, on 11/08/2008, -2/+51I thought at first this might be a real threat and something was compromised.

    Oh, you have to click a link that is obviously from an untrusted source. So, not news.
  • Christbait, on 11/08/2008, -6/+54OVER 9000!!!!! would have been more appropriate.
  • weech, on 11/08/2008, -3/+50b-b--but...someone must think im special!
  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -3/+41its a trojan GANGBANG!
  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -4/+42*nix and OS X aren't mentioned because as usual, they are not affected.
  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -6/+42PENIS
  • LifeNova, on 11/08/2008, -10/+45Best anti-virus: Ubuntu
  • wontstoptalking, on 11/08/2008, -1/+34Who? WHO??? How can I find out?????
  • 3leggedHorse, on 11/08/2008, -6/+36Your safe then if you are using OSX or Linux.
  • Dundasbro, on 11/08/2008, -3/+33"Help my mouse is moving by itself!?!?!?"
  • moolcool, on 11/08/2008, -2/+31*Stupid Facebook Users Attacked by Trojan Virus
  • qbthemc, on 11/08/2008, -5/+33Let me quote Nelson from the Simpsons "HA HA".
  • Danktolker, on 11/08/2008, -2/+30Should be called the Narcissism virus.
  • umbrellainabin, on 11/08/2008, -25/+53Bury Me
  • umbrellainabin, on 11/08/2008, -1/+29Those greek bastards in the horse again
  • IneffablePolk, on 11/08/2008, -0/+26Best anti-virus: not clicking shady links.
  • farfegnugen, on 11/08/2008, -1/+24The people who actually talk like that online.
  • B3000, on 11/08/2008, -0/+23"that dumb enough" = fail.
  • Barney255, on 11/08/2008, -0/+22Was there need for that?
    i bet antispammer is a nice guy
  • umbrellainabin, on 11/08/2008, -2/+23.....or the fact that it doesn't affect us
  • switchman401, on 11/08/2008, -13/+34La, la, la... MacBook Pro. La, la, la. What's this .exe file that automatically downloaded? Hmmm... Send to trash. La, la, la... I love facebook. La, la, la.
  • firedrillduckie, on 11/08/2008, -0/+21Good thing my Facebook language is set to Pirate.
  • pcgeek101, on 11/07/2008, -31/+51Wow, attacks can come from anywhere! Good thing that, since I'm running Windows Vista Business Edition, I'm protected by User Account Control (UAC)! With Windows Vista, I know my computer's secure.
  • axelstudios, on 11/08/2008, -0/+20It's actually pretty easy to find out who's dumb enough to do that when you start getting these messages from them
  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -1/+21This pales in comparison to that "Miley Cirus" virus that takes control of your audio card to continuously play Miley songs. Now, THAT's evil!
  • foreignwarren, on 11/08/2008, -0/+19I got a seemingly innocuous message from a friend's account saying something about someone caught on webcam....and clicked the link. Luckily Firefox intervened and the red warning came up telling me it was not a trusted site.....and I escaped unscathed. So....long story short...use the latest Firefox.
  • crownedgriffin, on 11/08/2008, -12/+31lol @ facespace n00bs getting pwnd.
  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -4/+23YOUR, *****. YOU'RE IS A CONTRACTION OF YOU+ARE. *****.
  • pirlok, on 11/07/2008, -5/+24i wasn't attacked. good thing i'm prepared now!
  • luchid, on 11/08/2008, -3/+21Wow, could you be any more obvious?
  • audiodrumm, on 11/08/2008, -3/+21Good for you for thinking that....Redmond must be proud....
  • Alchemistmerlin, on 11/08/2008, -16/+33Well of course you are.

    The Trojan comes via Friend messages, and no one who uses OSX or Linux has friends.
  • blarch, on 11/08/2008, -1/+18if you're going to poke someone, wear protection
  • AndrewWiggin, on 11/08/2008, -2/+18Modern people will actually digg you up. Post-modern people will still digg you down.
  • t0x2c, on 11/08/2008, -0/+16This virus was written by a two year old, but it doesn't actually exploit any technical feature of face book.

    Trick user to clicking on link.
    Trick user into installing plugin.
    Send web requests to send face book messages (nothing exploited here, just pretending like it's human)

    The only real solution to this would be mass captcha everywhere, and that was really myspace's biggest downfall.
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