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Showing posts with label malware. Show all posts
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Thursday, 25 November 2010

Malware in Facebook news feeds

Facebook news feeds are beset with malware - The Inquirer
Bitdefender claims that one in five news feeds on Facebook contains some sort of malware.

The outfit looked at 14,000 user profiles and worked out that the
bulk of the infectious software on the ego-stroking and privacy
shredding website was written by independent developers.


Anything that uses the phrase "Free trial! Click here!" is likely to lead to a malware infection.

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Saturday, 27 March 2010

Facebook Password Reset threat

Beware of the Facebook Password Reset Confirmation Malware - Tech Salsa
If you get an email claiming to be from Facebook and stating that they had to change your password, don't open the attachment. Delete the email. Then log into Facebook and change your password just to be safe.

If you do get infected by this threat, download and run Malwarebytes to get rid of it, then log into Facebook (after you have removed the threat) and change your password.