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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Panda Software: alarm, attack on Facebook

From Panda software Security labs comes the alarm for a new variant of the worm family Boface designed to download malware and spread through Facebook. And the variant Boface.BJ.worm uses Facebook to download and install fake antivirus programs software and deceives users making them believe they were infected and encouraged them to purchase a security solution. Potentially this is an extremely high risk software that at this point may have already affected over two million users of social network.

the Panda software laboratories show that the number of infections caused by this type of malware software during the month of April has increased by% in 1200 compared to August last year. Panda software comes from the recommendation to not click on suspicious links from untrusted sources that can be they social network or email to check the landing page are not to insert anything and you are asked if the purchase of a virus, the data of credit card and check the status of protection of their PC.

The worm reaches computers by e-mail messages containing attachments, Internet download, files transferred via FFT, Irc channels, network file sharing. Once attacked the victim PC and the worm takes four hours to get in action and it does so as soon as the user logs in to your Facebook account to send to him and his entire network of friends a message.

posted by Hadson @ 8:47 PM