Posts Tagged MALWARE

Cool Video -Facebook Spam Message

Posted by on Friday, 14 August, 2009
If you get a Facebook message bearing the subject line ‘CoooooL Video,’ delete it immediately. According to Mashable, the spam message has recently started showing up in many a member’s inbox, claiming to have been sent by one of a user’s friends. From one case to another, the messages’ included links seem to vary, but their final destinations are one and the same: Malware City. If you do open the link, and thusly download the malware, you’ll unwittingly be deluging your own friends with the ‘CoooooL Video’ messages.

If your profile is already sending the messages, Mashable suggests you do the following: clear all cookies from your browser’s settings, change your Facebook password, and — as always — update your anti-virus software and run a full scan. Follow those steps, and you should be safe from ‘CoooooL Video.’ We, ourselves, aren’t worried about it. If one of our Facebook friends spelled ‘cool’ that way, they’d be de-friended immediately, anyway. [From: Mashable]

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