Archive for the ‘Koobface’ Category

When Your Facebook Friend Is Not A Human

November 10th, 2009

Koobface variant is resurfaced again. This time this virus is not only back but with added sophisticated and behaves like an usual Facebook user. According to TrendMicro, it automates the following routines: Firstly register a Facebook account, and confirm an email address in GMail in order to activate the registered Facebook account. Unlike previo...

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MSRT Will Protect You Against Koobface

April 8th, 2009

If you’re using Windows, you probably have heard of Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). It is a quality antivirus solution to be delivered to the Windows PCs as part of the Automatic Updates package each month. A good news is that now it’s more safer to use Windows-based PCs to access Facebook as Koobface, a [...]...

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Warning: New Koobface Worm Spreading on Facebook

March 7th, 2009

I’m not sure whether this is a good sign for the Facebook and its users. More security issues would mean that Facebook is large enough as a viable target for the spammers or scammers. And on the other end, the new Koobface worm as reported by TrendMicro security blog more or less helped the users [...]...

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