I was sent a typical email from Facebook tonight which was to let me know that I had a message from one of my friends. I opened the message in a browser like I would any other and read it. Here’s the message:
I thought the message was strange right off the bat because it’s from a friend which I rarely talk to. She’s just someone I went to high school with but is on my friends’ list on Facebook. Since this message was addressed to several people, I just assumed it was a mass forward of some kind. The title really plays to a person’s ego: i found a video with you. looks like you’re superstar.
I followed the link to a harmless Geocities page but was then immediately redirected to a “yeotube.com” address. I didn’t misspell it. Often spammers will use web addresses that look similar to well-known sites like YouTube or Ebay. (Check addresses carefully when getting email, etc.)
Just as I expected, a video player popped up but warned me that my flash player was not up-to-date so the video could not be played. As most video players will do, it gave me a link to download the update. I clicked it, saved it, and tried to install it. That’s when my anti-virus software started popping up windows all over the place. As it turns out, I was unknowingly trying to install three different “trojan horse” installers.
If you get this message on Facebook, do NOT let your curiosity get the best of you. Delete it immediately!
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I got one of these messages, actually, that was titled “Your picture is all over such-and-such site” from a friend on there. I ignored it since I didn’t recognize the site name, and emailed my friend whose account it came from.
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You are obviously wiser than I am. I didn’t think much of it. I just clicked.
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I got it from 3 different friends yesterday. Unfortunatley I also unknowingly sent it out to all my friends. I have sent out warning messages to all my friends, but I’m not sure how to get rid of the Trojan Horse. I thought my anti-virus took care of it at the beginning when it first popped up. I ran a complete scan just to be safe and it came up clear. However when I turned on the computer this morning, my anti-virus identified a trojan horse again and now I can’t connect to the internet on that computer any more. I can’t find any suspisious programs running in task manager and am not really sure what to do now.
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I had the same thing happen this morning. Be sure to delete the install file as well as anything saved in your Documents which was put there during the installation attempt.
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Some of the known subject headings are: “Maan,yyou’re great!”, “Me and my best friend found video with you. oh, you’re so nice there.”, “Some0ne thinks your special and has a *Hot_Crush* on you. Find out who it could be*” or a youtube link that says ‘”i can see yooooooooo”.
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Thank you for sharing those.
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i have the same problem except it told me it was a sexy video form a friend of me. I clicked it and something about malware popped up on my computer. i have rean everythin i can find ot get this off my computer. it never works i restore the system then i a few days as soon as i have to reset or install updates it kills all my network adapters and i cannot get on the net.. i have tried to relaod iwndows and everythign over again ..what do i do
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I had this virus opening a video now it in qurantined but cant open facebook, it just suchs down my internet everytime i go to facebook