The popular wall section of Facebook is unfortunately now a platform for malicious hackers. Through posting stuff on the walls like videos and leaving a link there they can get into your pc and access your information.

The wall is a feature used by the users of Facebook to leaves messages for each other and also videos and pictures.

The malware on the wall comes in form of a message or video with a link asking you to click on it showing that the link will land to a site hosted by google however it is not. It directs you to a page which is not hosted by Google and says to download the latest adobe’s flash player to view the file. As soon as the user does so it downloads a Trojan horse in their pc namely Troj/Dloadr-BPL. This Trojan funnels various other malicious codes detected as Troj/Agent-HJX into your machine. Once it has downloaded it shows a picture of a court jester sticking his tongue out.

So users beware of this thing before it attacks you too!

Tags: facebook, facebook malware, facebook virus

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