Warning: Surprise Spam Trojan On Facebook

[bangkokcitylimits]

Ever received messages from your Facebook friends containing a notice or invitation, such as an invitation to visit a particular site, added with an interesting message, like “Hey watch this, so cool!”? In most cases, the recipient of the message will be happy to follow it, especially if the message was sent by one of your best friends, which you trust. However, did you ever think that it could be sent by an intruder, spam, or even viruses?

Like yesterday, one of my friends received a “surprise” from Facebook, but then soon realized that his computer was now infected with the trojan, as well as making it a “spam machine.”

s you can see, the site was not the original of Facebook, but “hxxp://facebook-surprise-kjeg.tk/”. Through social engineering techniques, the author deliberately makes the site look like the original one, of course, to give users a false sense of security. And when the mouse is hovering at that page, it would seem that it is a link that leads to the file “suprise.exe” (hxxp://facebook-surprise-kjeg.tk/surprise.exe). The file itself is using an icon that similar to the default icon of image file:

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[thrilled]

people seem to put viruses everywhere

[Nuff Said]

Another reason not to go near to Facebook, not that I really needed one.

Edited January 22, 2011 by Nuff Said

[thequick7]

that posted link in op isnt a link to a trojan is it??? now u've got me paranoid!!!

[CHdiver]

Another reason not to go near to Facebook, not that I really needed one.

If you want to be safe you should not use any Internet Forum either, they are known to spread viruses often....