Koobface

Posted by: spywareremove on: July 21, 2009

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Koobface is dangerous malware. Koobface attacks social networks, especially facebook.com. It also targets users of bebo.com, myyearbook.com, blackplanet.com, myspace.com and friendster.com.

Koobface posts a message on social network or sends a message to everyone on victim’s contacts list. The link leads to a fraudulent website which offers downloading either a video codec or Flash player update. If user downloads the file, he/she gets a copy of Koobface worm onto computer. We advise Twitter users to avoid clicking URLs on tweets, specially if the tweet advertises a home video.

However, what it does from there is install .EXE files. If you run them, you become infected with the virus, and when you login to Twitter, the virus can automatically start tweeting out the malicious link.

TrendLabs has released Koobface and most of its components cleaner.

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