If you absolutely swear by Facebook, it is time for you to be a bit cautious. The social networking site has asked its users to be aware of a link, ’sexiest video ever’, as the video spreading virus on the internet.
The website warned that if you see a message like ‘this is without doubt the sexiest video ever!’ on your Facebook wall, do not click it else it can lead to malware.
From in.news.yahoo.com:
‘If you get a posting on your Facebook wall telling you ‘this is without doubt the sexiest video ever!’ which seems to be accompanied by a video titled ‘Candid Camera Prank [HQ]‘, then don’t click on the video: it’s a lead-in to malware,’ the website warned.
‘Clicking the link will take you to what seems like a Facebook application which then tells you that your video player is out of date – and encourages you to download a file. If you do, then the same ‘video’ plus link gets posted using your avatar to all your friends on Facebook — meaning it is spreading virally,’ it said.
‘Judging by the number of messages posted on Facebook, thousands of people received this attack. If you were one of them, you should scan your computer with an up-to-date anti-virus, change your passwords, review your Facebook application settings, and learn not to be so quick as to fall for a simple social engineering trick like this in future,’ Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at anti-virus company Sophos, was quoted by the Guardian as saying.
So the next time you logon to Facebook and see this message, you know that you must best avoid it else the consequences can make your computer speed die and even lead to data loss in no time.
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Tags: Candid Camera Prank, Facebook, Facebook application, malware, virus
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Pleasant post. It seems that most of the steps are relying on the creativeness factor….
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I can’t wait for more articles! When will you update your interesting blog? …