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College Campuses Hit Hard By Facebook Worm

March 3, 2009 - 1:45 pm By COED Staff

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

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.

Check out more details and find out how to protect yourself!

2 Comments		Posted in Blotter
		Tags: facebook, Facebook virus, Koobface, Koobface facebook, Koobface myspace

Joey says:

March 3, 2009 at 2:46 pm

I hear it’s only infecting your computer if you’re a moron.

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