I am sure everyone knows Facebook and a lot of you have an account there like I do.
With quite a few users (175,000,000) it is an inviting target for worms and viruses. But of course Facebook is not the only social network that has been taken advantage of. MySpace, Bebo or Friendster are hit too.
Appearence of the worm: If you get a message from a friend that sent you a link and brings you to a page that looks like youtube be aware! Ususally a picture of your friend is shown too. To watch that video you will be asked to install the adobe flash player. If you do so you will enter the site that has the worm as a download.
Once you got the worm it will control your computer. So better get software and plug-ins from the vendor's site!
I am a facebook user and I am always careful with all these applications you can install.
How do you save yourself against these threats from the internet?
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