Facebook warning - "worm" alert!

[tikay]

Luckily, I don't open Facebook shite, but I know I've been "attacked" today, as have many others, by a "worm".

It's embedded in an Inbox "Message", within a YouTube Video. The video includes the word "Wow", & refers to "is that you in this video?".

It was sent to Chili, & she opened it. Within minutes, her PC was "auto-sending" e-Mails & the sussy vid Message to all her "Friends". Luckily, Kinboshi helped out by sending out warning messages.

I've just been on Facebook, & I see Richard Berridge has suffered the same problem.

The original Message (to Chili) came from Raj, but of course, he may have equally been "wormed".

I got the "worm Vid" from Chili at 12.41 today - & I got the "Raj" version at 5.13pm.

Be careful!

[Robert HM]

Thanks for that

[kinboshi]

For once, Kendall's right.

There's a worm/virus called 'koobface' (more here about it:  http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_148955.htm ) that spreads via Facebook or Myspace.

I don't think it can infect your machine just by clicking on the link when you receive a message (like the one Kendall mentioned), but I think it's when you click through and it asks you to download a codec or something similar to view a video/image, etc.

So, if you haven't done that, I think you'll be fine.  Best bet is to make sure you have an up-to-date anti-virus program on your computer, and if you have clicked through on one of these links, it might be worth doing a full scan of your computer to check for infections.

Here ends the public information broadcast.

[Claw75]

it's been around for a few weeks - I've had similar messages purporting to come from several friends - all slightly different but all linking to what is claimed to be a video with me in it - got the one from Maria today too.

[turny]

thanks for the warning guys

[tikay]

Maria advised me to simply "Delete" the Message without opening it.

[ariston]

if maria sends you a video you would probably open it as well and thats the prob- its come from a trusted source.

[bolt pp]

Ive never had worms

[MC]

Eek, thanks for warning...

[reenot]

My daughter got it last week too.

[Sheriff Fatman]

My message came from Thewy earlier today.

[Laxie]

I got it from a friend in America last week, but deleted without clicking the link because it seemed odd coming from that particular person.

[RobS]

Thought this was going to be a "Mickey Wernick has joined Facebook thread". How disappointing!

[pokerfan]

talking of viruses is this a phisihng job?im sure blonde wouldnt run these adds.the rest of the page was none responsive,only the banners were active.

[pokerfan]

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