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Aug 1 @ 10:26 AM The Koobface worm

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The Koobface worm is the latest attack by hackers increasingly looking to prey on users of social-networking sites then tries to gather sensitive information such as credit-card numbers..

Article from PCWorld explains it pretty well.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/155017/facebook_virus_turns_your_computer_into_a_zombie.html

MSN bits and pieces

Once a computer has become infected with the Kooface worm, it spams the friends belonging to the owner of the computer by leaving comments on their profiles. Those comments appear to come from the infected user, saying things like "Are you sure this is your first acting experience?", "is it u there?", "impressive. i'm sure it's you on this video", "How can anyone get so busted by a spy camera?" and "You're the whole show! i'm admired with you." Save for that last one, whose bad English will likely raise a flag that all is not what it seems, the other comments appeal to people's vanity. They wonder: is that really a video of me? and then click through on the link provided.

Koobface spreads by sending notes to friends of someone whose PC has been infected. The messages, with subject headers like, "You look just awesome in this new movie," direct recipients to a Web site where they are asked to download what it claims is an update of Adobe Systems Inc's Flash player.

Contaminated sites
If they download the software, users end up with an infected computer, which then takes users to contaminated sites when they try to use search engines from Google, Yahoo, MSN and Live.com, according McAfee.

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