Facebook Child Porn Virus
Posted: August 27, 2013
Threat Metric
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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
| Threat Level: | 2/10 |
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| Infected PCs: | 46 |
| First Seen: | August 27, 2013 |
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| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Facebook Child Porn Virus is a malware infection, which spreads on Facebook in a form of video. The malicious Facebook video has already been shared numerous times and has received more than 5,000 likes. The virus, which is linked to Facebook Child Porn Virus, may strive to affect PC users via a message, which appears to be sent from a friend, but is not associated with the people the victim knows. Once the target computer user opens a message and clicks on a malicious link, his/her Facebook's wall shares a video of child pornography with all his/her Facebook's contacts. Sometimes, the message contains a phrase 'watch this if you are curious' or similar text that raises the computer user's curiosity. Basically, this virus can also be called Facebook Virus, which has been found to have many different versions that function differently. If the PC user receives an unexpected message, he/she should firstly contact its sender and ask about his/her message before opening. Facebook Child Porn Virus is spread via a message that says 'watch this if you're curious'. However, the message may also contain other phrase that looks persuading and urges the victim to believe it. If the PC user clicks on the link, which is added to the text, he/she will automatically install Facebook Child Porn Virus to the Facebook account and will share child pornography video on the wall. PC users should reject the scam messages and refuse from the shared videos if they want to avoid getting involved in the delivery of Facebook Child Porn Virus.
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Additional Information
| # | Message |
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| 1 | Watch this if you are curious |
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