Quote Originally Posted by Gobi View Post
We all have encountered virus in daily Cyber life, But in Social Media? It's happening.Recently I got to know about these kind of virus that could easily trap you with an innocently tempting cover.
The KoobFace virus
  • The name itself is an anagram of Facebook. It has the ability to create Fb accounts on its own and post links everywhere.
  • Comes through mails with a video link attachment from your contacts, asking you to watch the video.
  • Clicking that link will redirect you to a web page, where it will offer the specific video but will ask you to install a software to watch it. And if you accept it, Koobface will successfully get into your system.
  • And the specialty of Koobface is, it could make anything happen to your system including downloading and running any random software without your permission.

All in all, it gets total access to your PC.
So in short, never get into any mails or posts that may contain such short video links.That might keep you safe.Anybody who knows any other virus that strolls through the Social Networks? Let me know in the replies below.


Good post @Gobi. I thought of adding some more points to it.

If we look at it in a broader way (not just Koobface), these attacks comes under the category of Phishing attacks. following tips can be used to be preventive of Phishing attacks. (I'm not gonna write what and how phishing attacks come)


  • As @Gobi said, think before clicking any link. Don't click blindly out of curiosity. Of course you can click on trusted sites. This is how you can verify its trusted. Never download anything if the below is not verified.

- Check for the "https" in the address.
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- Check for the lock mark in the address
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- You can check further by checking the extended trust by the GREEN lock with company name
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- Check for the SSL Certificate and see if it's from a valid Certificate Authority (CA)
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There are many more tech ical ways of being prevent. But the above are easy for a non-tech person to follow.

Hope this was informative