Facebook Scam: 'Cooool Video'

by Jordan Yerman | August 13, 2009 at 12:41 pm
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Facebook malware scam alert: If you find a message in your Facebook Inbox with the subject line "Cooool Video", delete it. It's a malware link. If your account is sending these things, then congratulations: you're infected. Clear cookies, change password, run antivirus. This is the latest malware scourge to hit Facebook; these things propagate most easily via private message. (via Mashable)

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Beaulieu

Thanks for 'scamwatching' Jordan.

Haven't been infected yet, but have enough company scams keeping me going.

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Barry Artiste

Thanks Jordan, I will remind my boys about it.

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JTTech

Good to know--it'd be easy to accidentally click on that.  those tricksters!

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