College Campuses Hit Hard By Facebook Worm

The “Koobface worm” Facebook virus is spreading like wildfire on college campuses.

By COED Staff

The Facebook worm works like this: After users log into their Facebook or MySpace accounts, they will see a new message from one of their friends encouraging them to click on a new video at a fake, YouTube-esque site.

From there, the fake YouTube site tells the user that they need to download Adobe Flash plug-in in order to properly watch the video. Except that, rather than install the new Adobe program, a trojan horse program which allows the worm and hacker to completely control the user’s Facebook account is downloaded.

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