Facebook virus

[Pauline]

A friend of ours has been hit by a virus which is believed to have come from Facebook. There was a warning of the possibility before Christmas, pays to be careful:

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/806522-facebook-users-warned-of-new-koobface-virus

Apparently it happened in 2008 and shows up from time to time.

[onceinabluemoon]

Thank you

I got hit by this 3 times last year but thankfully didn't open the message let alone click on anything.

The worst thing is that it pretends to have some from your friends. How I knew it was a virus was that the first one pretended to come from one of my forum friends who is on facebook who I'd never met in real life and they were supposed to have a video/photo of me, totally impossible!

Hope everybody reads this and nobody gets caught.

[sue m]

Thanks Pauline.

[Mouse]

Thanks for letting us know Pauline. It's always good to be pre-warned about these things.

[Monkey1]

Think my son had this yesterday!:panic: and my mum clicked on it too!

[PixiePetal]

Thanks Pauline - I am quite new to facebook and both my kids have it too so will warn them. :thumbsup: