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Thursday, May 5, 2011

News: iPhone 5 a new way to spam on Facebook

A marked increase in the number of spam messages


MALE M86 Security Labs site that the pirates started to use the links persuasive claim to the deployment of the latest information published by Wired News site


About Your iPhone 5, beneficiaries in Facebook by allowing for the possibility to comment on the sites.


When the user presses the link is redirected to another site Bdomin. Info as there are more than 10 sites were used during this campaign.


By accessing the site asks the user to answer a question for verification, but the user can not be seen what he wrote.


Once you answer the question, the user has left a comment on the site.


After that request from the user download a file which contains a number of applications that are trying to persuade the user to become a member and pays the subscription.


Although there are a number of protection programs were able to identify the virus and prevent the loading of the file where one falls under the categories of


Malware known as Adware.Yontoo, but the idea itself has attracted nearly 100,000 users to put pressure on these links


And then spread the virus.


According to a report issued by the company AVG, during the past year there was a campaign and one of the spam on average per week, usually in the holiday


The end of the week and located the lives of between 200,000 and 300,000 users.


But this year it has become almost a campaign of spam Chen daily users of the site.


For his part, the famous social networking site Facebook does not attempt to disseminate these messages and works to prevent it in all ways.


And Facebook users should be aware that the sites of legitimate and genuine users are not forced to answer questions or to verify survey.

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