Your Friend’s Ex-Girlfriend is Spreading a Virus on Facebook WARNING
Despite what you may be reading on Facebook today, your friend isn’t trying to exact revenge on his super hot cheating ex-girlfriend. It’s a worm. So DO NOT click that suspicious — albeit very tempting — Facebook status update.The new Facebook worm is spreading virally — you can do a Facebook search for “ex-girlfriend cheated” to see all the public posts roll in — among users who are falling for the ex-girlfriend revenge bait. The malicious status update to avoid reads:“My Ex-Girlfriend Cheated on me… Here is my revenge!”If you were to click on the link, the very same status update will get posted to your account and perpetuate the problem. Hence the viral spread of this Facebook worm.Unfortunately, Nick O’Neill at AllFacebook counts himself among those victimized. Here’s what he wrote about the experience:“In the past hour I*ve noticed multiple users who have posted a message stating ‘My Ex-Girlfriend Cheated on me… Here is my revenge!’ The image was not of their ex though. As a curious individual, I decided to click on the link to see if it was a virus or something else. The result was that I ended up posting the article to my profile and now it*s spreading around Facebook.The key here is to not click the link if you see it on your friends* profiles or on your homepage. By using some creative CSS and an iFrame, this developer has triggered the ’share’ event every time a person clicks on the image displayed on the page. It*s a really creative trick, and one that I*m sure Facebook will block in a short amount of time but you should definitely be aware of the issue.”If you’ve fallen victim to this ploy, you’re not alone, but we advise you to delete the update and change your password immediately. We’ve also reached out to Facebook for comment and will update this post when we know more.Update: Facebook is addressing the issue and working to remove the posts. Simon Axten from Facebook responded to our inquiry saying, “We*ve blocked the URL associated with this site, and we*re cleaning up the relatively few cases where it was posted (something email providers, for example, can*t do). Overall, an extremely small percentage of users were affected. As always, we*re asking people not to click on suspicious links, even if they*ve been sent or posted by friends. You*ll find this tip and others on the Facebook Security Page: http://www.facebook.com/security.”Tags: facebook, Facebook Worm
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