
What a con
You'd think that the malware-mongers would at least have the decent to show you the promised video after they've filled your machine up with crap.
Facebook users were hit for the second time in only a week by a video-themed malware attack last weekend. The latest assault involved the posting of a fake video to profiles entitled "distracting beach babes" that appeared under the guise of a post by one of a targeted user's friends on the social networking site. The messages …
"The bogus application, if successfully installed, posts the same lure to contacts of an infected mark, restarting the exploit cycle."
Yup, got one of these from someone I know - it wanted me to install shockwave.
Nah, just laughed - especially as I'd just been clearing out the spam trap elsewhere and I'd got a really poor 419 that'd had me rolling on the floor.
Mind you, it just shows you what some of your 'friends' will click on, surprising sometimes.
...that is, clicked on the link.
He did apologise shortly afterwards though, and in his defence, he was drunk.
It was pretty well mocked up too - the link came from '3GP video' which had been set up as an app/group type thing, so it looked fairly authentic at first glance (certainly enough to convince most causal users) but the wording, use of smileys (nothing like my mate at all) made it fairly clear it wasn't from him. That and it being posted in exactly the same manner on six of our mutual mates walls....
Ah well. You live and learn...
Steven R