Warning: "Facebook photos" email virus (August 2012)

[jcat]

Beware, new email virus asks you to view friends’ Facebook photos

If you’re a Facebook user, and frankly who isn’t these days, be wary if you suddenly get an email asking you to look at new photos from a friend.

The email’s likely not from a friend at all, but rather it is a new malware-carrying Trojan horse that is making the rounds disguised as a notification from Facebook.

According to Sophos.com’s Naked Security, the emails pretend to come from Facebook but don’t. They invite users to look at new photos from a friend and ask users to click on an attachment to view the photos.

The problem is when users click on the attachment, they open up their computers to a ZIP file which contains malware and allows hackers to take over if it is a Windows machine.

Facebook Virus: Emails Claims Photos Have Posted Of You, Actually Includes Malware

 

[kittycatpaw]

thankyou ill keep my eye out

 

[catspaw66]

Another good reason for me to avoid Facebook.

 

[kittycatpaw]

im barley on facebook im only on it to mannage my dancing stuff. xx

 

[fleakilled]

Nobody should ever click anything in any emails from anything! Hackers love to use facebook to infect peoples computers.