Monday, September 7, 2009

Facebook, Fan Check Virus

To all users of Facebook, please check out this article:

FaceBook Fan Check Virus Already Infected A Lot Of Users

and here is a quote:

"Yeah, you should know that FaceBook is full of viruses, malware and phishing scams among others, but you can protect yourselves. FaceBook Fan Check is apparently an app which checks your number of friends, then gives users the possibility to create a RSS feed to post it on your FaceBook page.

All is good until here as this is nothing more than a virus. When users try to access the FaceBook Fan Check app they’ll get a message that says the app is down because the developer is adding new features, and new capacity, and that it could take days to finish them. IT says that you should become a fan on FaceBook of the update, but in fact it will infect your FaceBook account, and it will send an email to all of your friends to become a fan, but it will infect them too."

Please be aware. No antivirus has been able to detect it yet, and at the same time, if you can, disconnect your line from the network OR disconnect your wireless in the meantime. A solution for this may be coming soon, or at least a workaround. Please stay posted.

And don't download anything that says it can exclusively remove it.


Regards,

eggBrain



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