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TOPIC: Alert! - Facebook Password Reset Confirmation Email Contains Virus

barney

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Date: Oct 28, 2009

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Another new virus is spreading through social networks, this time, via Facebook. This one – known as Bredolab – masks itself as a “Password Reset Confirmation Email,” appears to come from Facebook, and attaches a file that purports to contain a new password. That file is actually a trojan horse that will download a host of nasty files from the Web and infect your computer with them. Email security firm MX Lab explains further: “Bredolab is a trojan horse that downloads and executes files from the Internet, such as rogue anti-spyware. To bypass firewalls, it injects its own code into legitimate processes svchost.exe and explorer.exe. Bredolab contains anti-sandbox code (the trojan might quit itself when an external program investigates its actions).” Alert! - Facebook Password Reset Confirmation Email Contains Virus __________________ http://www.mycomputerplayground.com http://www.digitaldrama.net http://www.thisrules.net

Vindicated

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Date: Oct 28, 2009

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I got that email yesterday & I'm not using Facebook! Just deleted it without opening. __________________ Vindicated

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