800,000 Facebook users have been victims of a new virus On the Internet, have created a new virus that poses as a video allegedly laid out on behalf of friends in Facebook. From the action of hackers have suffered for more than 800,000 users. Link to the virus arrives in an email or personal message in Facebook, notifying that someone said a man in the video. After clicking on an unfamiliar URL- address of the user is asked to download " plug-in" for your browser to be able to see the movie . Once the malware gets on your computer , attackers gain access to any information stored in the browser, including accounts and passwords to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks . Get rid of " expansion " is not easy, because it blocks access to the settings of your browser and go prohibits websites of antivirus companies. According to the researchers , who are judged by the comments in the code , the virus created by hackers from Turkey. Spread it pretty quickly - at a rate of 40,000 attacks per hour , and managed to infect more than 800 million people who use Chrome. Google, Inc. developer of the browser is aware of the attack and has blocked the " bad" plug . Facebook is also engaged in cleaning the links to the virus .
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 04:14:52 +0000
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