Facebook 'photo virus' spreads via email

[Jazzy]

Facebook users are at risk from a new virus which is being spread by emails posing as photo alerts from the social network.



The emails look exactly like Facebook’s own messages which are sent to a user’s personal email accounts when they are tagged in a photo.



However, instead of the links in the emails leading to the referenced photo, they redirect the victim of the spam campaign to a site which tries to infect the person’s computer with malicious software. A few seconds later the link will redirect the user one more time to Facebook.com.



Many people will not have realised that their computer has been infected – but can spot the bogus emails as Facebook is misspelt as ‘Faceboook’.



“Be wary of emails claiming to be from Facebook, and saying that you have been tagged in a photograph,” warned Graham Cluley of the British internet security firm Sophos.

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