Beware of Facebook virus

Your friend sends a video starring you through a private message on Facebook, however, you know you have never made a video with him. What do you do? Since the beginning of December, the Koobface worm has been plaguing the Facebook social networking site by using this method. The McAfee Avert Labs found the worm on December 5. This new discovery is a resurgence of Koobface, which was reported by Kaspersky Labs back in July. Kaspersky says that this worm is part of a malicious payload that transforms infected machines into zombie computers that create numerous botnets that cause spamming on the network.

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