Fake Facebook Email Contains Virus PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:02
An email carrying a virus and masquerading as an email from the Facebook Site went around early in the year and it appears to have morphed a little and be circulating once more with a particularly nasty piece of malware in the attachment (Win32/Cryptor).  If you get an email with headers similar to the following, do NOT open the attachment, delete it from your computer without opening it. 

From: "The Facebook Team" < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >
Subject: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Important Message
Attached file name: Facebook_Support_57034.zip   

There are a few important points you want to remember here.
  1. Neither Facebook nor any other reputable site would ever use this kind of method to reset and send out new passwords.
  2. If you received this email and your installed anti-virus didn't alert you to the threat, you need to install a better anti-virus and make sure it is configured to scan all incoming emails.
  3. If you receive any emails like this with an attachment that you didn't request and you aren't sure what is in it, simply make it a habit to not open it.  You will very rarely get "something for nothing" and it is a sure bet that if you do get something for nothing via email it will be something you did NOT want.
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Our personal favorite is ESET Smart Security which combines a virus, anti-spyware and firewall into one suite of programs without hogging all your resources to run.  It is not free, but it is very reasonably priced (less than $90 for two years protection) and has a generous trial period.

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There are many others and I'm sure many other people would give you completely different suggestions but the point is you need something that is effective, kept up to date and current and that works well enough without bogging down your computer so that you will continue to use it.  Allowing your computer to become infected with malware not only compromises your own security and the safety of your personal information but it runs the risk of compromising those that you communicate with the most.  Almost all malware is clever enough to replicate itself and spread to other computers, and some is clever enough to morph itself as it moves through other computers making spreading it easier and getting rid of it a more trying task.

If you don't know how to do any of this, or if it all just makes your head hurt, or even if you just don't have time to do it yourself,  you can contact us and we will help you protect your computer.
 

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