Virus hits Facebook, MySpace social networking sites with bogus emails
August 9, 2008 by Stop the Propaganda
Filed under Economics, Social Networks
(The Canadian Press) - MONTREAL — A virus has been infecting popular social networking sites MySpace and Facebook, tech experts said Thursday.
On Facebook, the virus is causing email messages to be sent to people on “friends” lists asking them to watch a video supposedly on YouTube. A user has to download what purports to be a plug-in to watch the video.
Tech expert Marc Saltzman said the plug-in is actually a virus.
The bogus email appears to come from a friend, he said.
“Even when you go to the fake site, it has their name and profile picture right on the site, so you really believe it,” said Saltzman, a syndicated tech columnist who received several of these emails a few days ago.
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