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Thursday
Mar182010

New Malicious Virus Targets Facebook Users

An email is going around telling folks that their Facebook account has been compromised, and to click on the link to change their password.  Of course, clicking on the link downloads all manner of bad things onto the computer, including a key logger that steals passwords.  A pretty common tactic, but the new wrinkle on this one is that up until now, Facebook users have usually been targeted through Facebook's own messaging system, while this one uses regular email to do its thing.  Given that a fair percentage of Facebook's users are somewhat naive when it comes to safe computing (at least judging by some of the folks I know), this one could spread fairly quickly.

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