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Facebook Message Virus

Posted: August 27, 2013

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 5/10
Infected PCs: 162
First Seen: August 27, 2013
Last Seen: December 25, 2021
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Facebook Message Virus is a PC infection that propagates via Facebook. Differently from other versions of Facebook Virus, Facebook Message Virus tracks its victims via a chat window: it pops up as a message from a person who seems to be the target Facebook user's friend and displays a link to some website. If the attacked PC user clicks on this link, his/her PC gets contaminated with a malware threat, which additionally blocks security programs in order to restrict its removal. Facebook Message Virus continuously distributes itself via the victimized Facebook user's account. Facebook Message Virus helps attackers to steal personal information, such as logins, banking data and passwords, and controls the hacked PC. Facebook Message Virus can easily corrupt the vulnerable computer with a help of a malicious message that appears on a person-to-person chat. Usually, the fake message offers to see a 'shocking picture' or 'exiting video'. Many Facebook users have been duped by this scheme because this message appears to be sent by one of the affected PC user's contacts. Once Facebook Message Virus enters the hijacked PC, ir disables and removes anti-virus programs and starts sending the same bogus message to the target computer user's contacts via the same Facebook chat windows. PC users should reject all misleading message that come to their Facebook chat. They should also contact the sender and ask about the picture or video.

Technical Details

Additional Information

The following URL's were detected:
https://topmovieslinks.com/
The following messages's were detected:
# Message
1Exiting video
2Shocking picture

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