Koobface Virus NowTwitter

Skeithex · Post by **Skeithex** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 12:16 am

Koobface, an infamous virus that has previously been a big problem on Facebook, MySpace (MySpace), and other social networks, is now spreading its wings to Twitter (Twitter). Like previous virsues that have been spread via Twitter, the way to get infected with this one is to follow a link.

What Koobface does once you follow the link is a bit trickier than some other scams. It first shows you what appears to be a YouTube (YouTube) video (on a page and URL that resembles YouTube). And, like occasionally the case with YouTube videos, you’re then asked to upgrade your Flash player.

However, what it does from there is install .EXE files. If you run them, you become infected with the virus, and when you login to Twitter, the virus can automatically start tweeting out the malicious link. The tweets spreading the link may look like this, with the text “my home video,” so be sure to avoid following them:

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Post by **froggyboy604** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:14 am

Thanks for the news, this is one of the reasons I try to avoid clicking links from social sites or e-mail from unknown sources.

Skeithex · Post by **Skeithex** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:31 am

froggyboy604 wrote:Thanks for the news, this is one of the reasons I try to avoid clicking links from social sites or e-mail from unknown sources.

I try to avoid popular social sites like myspace and facebook. The main reason why Facebook was banned at my school was because viruses were getting on the school's computers from the social site.

Post by **froggyboy604** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:33 am

Sounds like the people who take of your computers at school are not updating, or securing the computers very well. I also don't go on many popular social sites because I get a lot of messages with links that go to unknown sites.