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Koobface variant worms across social networking sites

Chris iverson

koobface 

Posted Monday 2nd March 2009 20:58 GMT

am I the only one that read that originally as knobface?

Nathan Hobbs

More than 660,000 developers write for the platform 

Posted Monday 2nd March 2009 20:58 GMT

While more than 660,000 developers may write for the platform, only about 10 people write anything worth using.

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Anonymous Coward

Via spam, not from Facebook friends 

Posted Monday 2nd March 2009 20:58 GMT

I've seen one of these messages come in this afternoon- but it didn't come through facebook, it was just direct spam. It didn't use my facebook email address, and it didn't come from any of my facebook friends. On logging directly into facebook, there's no sign of any messages waiting to be dealt with.

Anyone else seen any signs that theirs actually came through facebook? If not, it seems harsh to say it is "spreading across social networking sites" - you could then equally well report that phishing emails are "spreading across major banking sites".

Jodo Kast

Until Facebook takes security seriously... 

Posted Monday 2nd March 2009 20:58 GMT

Stop

I may have to recommend to everyone I know: Delete your facebook account.

If facebook can't be responsible, and do nothing but offer excuses for lack of security, then they should be avoided at all costs.

They seem to be listening to users only when they want to... perhaps another exodus will convince them to take security seriously.

It's amazing how reckless they are.

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Anonymous Coward

old news 

Posted Tuesday 3rd March 2009 11:31 GMT

Thumb Up

One of my friends (who does filming) appeared to send something like this a good 3 months ago. It looked odd, but I was tired and clicked the update (then noticed the urls etc looked wrong, and swore). Avast caught whatever it was coming in. It still managed to reset my browser, but Combofix sorted that out.

yay Combofix and Avast

Matt Bradley

@Chris iverson 

Posted Thursday 5th March 2009 22:26 GMT

No.

Algernon

Until Facebook takes security seriously... 

Posted Monday 16th March 2009 10:43 GMT

Go

@Jodo Kast

I may have to recommend to everyone I know: Delete your Internet account.

If the Internet can't be responsible, and do nothing but offer excuses for lack of security, then they should be avoided at all costs.

They seem to be listening to users only when they want to... perhaps another exodus will convince them to take security seriously.

It's amazing how reckless they are.