HomeSecurityNew Hoax "WARNING... NEW DESTRUCTIVE VIRUS ON FACEBOOK...!!!"

New Hoax “WARNING… NEW DESTRUCTIVE VIRUS ON FACEBOOK…!!!”

Let's do something. Go to Google and search for the link below

[quote]mediafire.com/?g1aczaog1d72jl3%2FPhoto-12734.bmp[/quote]

The search will show you results from a bunch of Greek sites that are trying to protect their readers from the devastating viruses that appear from time to time on Facebook.. Let's just say that.

Below is one of the publications circulating around..

[quote]A new virus has appeared on Facebook for a few days and is causing headaches for social media users.

The virus comes through chat from friends who don't know it and asks "victims" to download a file from a specific link which destroys the computer's files.

When you come across a message in the format mediafire.com/?g1aczaog1d72jl3%2FPhoto-12734.bmp or similar, just don't be tempted to click on it.[/quote]

They are also misspelled.

Because before we help a hoax spread, we investigate it first, we went to the "cursed" URL and unfortunately for all those who reproduce the hoax, we did not encounter any io.. We encountered a mediafire page as shown in the image below.

mediafire

It has a sequel. This particular “security” post is a paraphrase of our post
Beware! in Facebook chat, Dorkbot malware is there

It was published on May 14, 2013 at 17:45 and warns about photo files in .jpg format. However, it is documented, and not as a doomsday message that will bring more clicks to website administrators.

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