It seems as though there is a new bad guy having his way with users on facebook. Right now there is a new nasty virus that is attacking people and spreading like a wildfire according to a few articles I have read so far. Until now people (including me at one point) would just aimlessly click through facebook looking at stuff people posted on their profiles or on friend’s walls for everyone to see. But it seems that this is exactly what this new virus is targeting because up until now no one has really had to worry much about anything bad coming from clicking links from facebook emails or watching videos in links people post on their profiles.

The virus is technically a trojan worm that disguises itself as an email from facebookmail.com. People are enticed to click on a misspelled video or picture link that directs to a malicious web site. The title of the dodgy links vary from “Maan,yyou’re great!” to “your ass looks not bad in this video”, “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”.

The worm (virus) if installed onto your computer finds the appropriate Facebook cookie, it modifies the users account settings and profile - adding links to malicious sites to trick others into installing the invader. Facebook discussion boards talk about the trojan directing users to a page which looks like YouTube. The phoney page asks the user to install a video player upgrade. Installing the fake upgrade allows the worm to work its magic and access files on the victim’s machine while destroying their Facebook account.

So it seems that the days of browsing around safely on Facebook are in trouble as new viruses such as this one are starting to become more frequent on these social networking sites which people don’t usually seem to be too cautious when looking around at their friend’s profile or group’s pages. If you like facebook and have spent a good amount of time working on your profile and finding friends, I would advice you to be careful so that it isn’t all ruined by this nasty virus that is out in the wild now.