[BC] Facebook virus
Mike Murrell
engineermike at mindspring.com
Fri Feb 26 14:58:43 CST 2010
Best way to not get it once it appears on your machine do not click on it
and simply push and hold the power button until your machine turns off.
Upon starting the machine back up the bug is gone. We have used this
multiple times in our office and ran scans after restart and scans came up
clean.
YMMV
Mike
I got hit with it. PC World says it turns your computer into a
zombie. Its name is "Koobface." It can be tough to get rid of because
it redirects you browser and incapacitates some virus checkers.
Fortunately I had my Zonealarm up to date and it found it. It
prevented me from trying to get the absolute latest updates. It's
been around a while so a relatively new update should catch it. Be
sure to reboot. It regenerates itself if you don't.
Rich
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