facebook virus
Apr. 3rd, 2010 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mickeymI know a lot of you use Facebook, so I thought I would pass this along.
Matthew got on Facebook this morning, and ended up with his computer infected with the Security Tool virus. I don't know what he was doing to GET it, but it seems reasonable to believe it's not an isolated incident.
Anyway, if you should happen to get that virus restart your system in safe mode (with networking, if you don't have a spyware/malware program already downloaded), and run your spyware program. (I use Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, myself.)
The link above describes with the Security Tool virus is, along with more detailed steps on what to do if you get it.
It really annoys me that people obviously waste so much time and energy creating these things when they could be creating something worthwhile, useful, whatever. Argh.
Matthew got on Facebook this morning, and ended up with his computer infected with the Security Tool virus. I don't know what he was doing to GET it, but it seems reasonable to believe it's not an isolated incident.
Anyway, if you should happen to get that virus restart your system in safe mode (with networking, if you don't have a spyware/malware program already downloaded), and run your spyware program. (I use Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, myself.)
The link above describes with the Security Tool virus is, along with more detailed steps on what to do if you get it.
It really annoys me that people obviously waste so much time and energy creating these things when they could be creating something worthwhile, useful, whatever. Argh.
