What exactly is the "Facebook Virus" and how bad is it?

[lordofthefries]

Because my computer is really slow and we just fixed it because it had a REALLY BAD virus....so I just wanted to know if its the "Facebook Virus" and if not...what happens when you do get the virus?

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If you've received a message like that through Facebook or MySpace, you may have been exposed to the "Koobface" virus. "Koobface" comes through an e-mail sent by one of your social networking site friends inviting you to scope out a video.

Once the URL is clicked, "Koobface" prompts you to update your Flash player before the video can be displayed. Therein lies the virus, cloaked in a "flash_player.exe" file. According to the Kaspersky Lab, an antivirus organization working closely with Facebook, "the worms transform victim machines into zombie computers to form botnets."

[The I.T. Tech Guy]

Here's a article on the Facebook Virus written in PC just last Dec./2008...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/155017/fa...ombie.html

Also run these 2-Devices (they're free) to get rid of all traces of anything...http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
http://download.cnet.com/SuperAntiSpywar...23889.html

Hope to have been of assistance to you...

I'm a Certified Technician.

[Wooly Booly]

do as I.T. Tech guy suggested,, this should fix you up... he beat me to it... lol.