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seoulsucker · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:43 am Post subject: Facebook Virus

Just a heads up to facebook users, there's a virus circulating around the service.

If you get a message with a link to a video or picture from a friend in broken English saying, "You look so nice in this pic/video" or something like that, don't click on it.

Hanson · Joined: 20 Oct 2004

I just got one saying "caught your a$$ on secret video" in a message from a friend. Obviously, my friend didn't send it... My anti-virus wouldn't let it open - called it a trojan.

robot · Joined: 07 Mar 2006

I caught that virus too... it froze all my buttons and wouldn't let me change my password.

skconqueror · Joined: 31 Jul 2005

got it yesterday..

clicked on the link.. and it wouldn't redirect.. saying harmful to my computer..

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

There have always been viruses on Facebook, from when I signed up however long ago that was. They have names like "You have 54 pirate invitations" or "You have 48 zombie invitations."

DaveMcK · Joined: 22 Oct 2008

I had a few emails like this too. They can also come through MSN. I got an IM from a friend which was a link to photos so clicked on it and next thing I know my computer is very sick. It ultimately nuked my hard drive.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

I got that too. I clicked on it, and the video seemed bring me to adultfriendfinder.

I haven't seen anything occur to my computer though.

DaveMcK · Joined: 22 Oct 2008

These things are really nasty. Look out for internet explorer browsers opening on their own and your homepage being changed.

The programmes that hide on your hard drive run other programmes and so it goes on. They're hard to find because the ones that are seen are loaded onto your machine by another programme. They disguise themselves as windows programmes like lsaas.exe and Isaas.exe (can't remember which one is the windows programme and which one is the trojan but if you are using serif text then you can't see the difference between those two)

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

DaveMcK · Joined: 22 Oct 2008

Pokerface · Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Location: Mokdong, Seoul

DaveMcK · Joined: 22 Oct 2008

dont look at your online bank account either

i_teach_esl · Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Location: baebang, asan/cheonan

and speaking of adultfriendfinder, i cant log onto it from home anymore. the website redirects to a message in korean, the only english on the page being a logo with the words, " Korean Communications Standards Commission." dayuumm.... what's a girl supposed to do now?!