Facebook virus

[eastcoastbernie]

Apologies if this has already been posted as I have been away from ybw forums for some considerable time.

I was told last night there is a nasty virus which shuts down your computer and then you can't re-boot it.

As I understand it, you get an email which tells you to log into facebook. If you follow the link, you get the virus.

Apparently it is safe to go direct to the Facebook site and log in in the usual way to check if you have any genuine messages.

 

[wongaero]

Sounds like a different thing but I managed to get some malware called bankerFox.A after someone attacked the Efestivals website a couple of weeks ago
- it seems to pretend to be an antivirus scanner, starts showing scary messages and you can't start or stop anything or even run Task Manager. The odd thing was that it didn't seem to need you to download or click 'ok' to anything but just appeared and started running.

I'm under the impression that a properly updated pc might block it but it's worth looking into malware scanning software too...

To fix I used another pc to download free malware scanning software, one example is Malwarebytes, chosen 'cos it was the first one I found:

http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebyt...4572.html?part=dl-10804572&subj=dl&tag=button

- stuck that on the pc running in safe mode so the malware couldn't auto-run and that scanned and fixed it.

Spent the rest of my Sunday applying updates... :-\

 

[elton]

Apologies if this has already been posted as I have been away from ybw forums for some considerable time.

I was told last night there is a nasty virus which shuts down your computer and then you can't re-boot it.

As I understand it, you get an email which tells you to log into facebook. If you follow the link, you get the virus.

Apparently it is safe to go direct to the Facebook site and log in in the usual way to check if you have any genuine messages.

It's not really a "Facebook virus" is it.

 

[eastcoastbernie]

Sorry if I've ruffled your feathers.

It was described to me as a 'facebook virus'. Since, I understand it applies specifically to emails pretending to come from facebook, I think that is a reasonable description.

I am not an expert on viruses, computers or facebook and was not wishing to mislead. Only to alert forumites to the risks. Just trying to be helpful really.

Sorry I spoke.

 

[PaulGooch]

It's not really a "Facebook virus" is it.

Quite right, it should more accurately be called :

"You get an email which tells you to log into facebook. If you follow the link, you get the virus, virus"

 

[elton]

Sorry if I've ruffled your feathers.

No ruffled! I was just trying to clarify the matter in case anyone thought they could get a virus by logging onto Facebook.

 

[MoodySabre]

Apparently it is safe to go direct to the Facebook site and log in in the usual way to check if you have any genuine messages.

I was just trying to clarify the matter in case anyone thought they could get a virus by logging onto Facebook.

What part of Bernie's last paragraph did you think people wouldn't understand? It was good of her to take time off on her birthday to warn us

 

[eastcoastbernie]

Apparently it is safe to go direct to the Facebook site and log in in the usual way to check if you have any genuine messages.

Perhaps you should have read my post more diligently then.

 

[wongaero]

Let's all be nice to each other

 

[eastcoastbernie]

Let's all be nice to each other

He started it!

 

[elton]

Perhaps you should have read my post more diligently then.

happy birthday

 

[oldsaltoz]

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