Facebook Trojan Gets Mac, Linux & Windows

**m4tic** · October 29th, 2010

A user gets a message asking "is this you in this video" and contained in the message is a link. Upon clicking the link the user is prompted to install software which will "enable viewing the video". At this point a savvy user should suspect that there is something wrong because it is not usual to install software to view a video.
http://irishdev.com/Home/News/1327-T...--Windows.html

**Grenage** · October 29th, 2010

That article seems remarkably thin on facts, and thick on bad analogies.

**matthew.ball** · October 29th, 2010

Hopefully now people will stop claiming "gnu/linux doesn't get viruses".

**Giant Speck** · October 29th, 2010

Originally Posted by matthew.ball

Hopefully now people will stop claiming "gnu/linux doesn't get viruses".

But it's not really a virus. It's a trojan. There's a difference.

I mean, I know what you're trying to say, but that doesn't apply to this specific situation.

**GabrielYYZ** · October 29th, 2010

i'm glad i'm fat, ugly and uninteresting... i get suspicious after the initial "is this you in this video?" message.

**Grenage** · October 29th, 2010

Originally Posted by GabrielYYZ

i'm glad i'm fat, ugly and uninteresting... i get suspicious after the initial "is this you in this video?" message.

Lmao!

**Yougo** · October 29th, 2010

well at least the article holds the user as the end-responsible one, instead of covertly trying to get you to buy antivirus crap (effectively turning the article itself into a trojan

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the ever-awkward car analogy strikes again in making things more confusing than they are, but if it takes articles like this one to scare people into properly taking care of their systems and personal data, then so be it.

**ctrlmd** · October 29th, 2010

in this article it says mac and windows only
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20020892-263.html

**Omnomnom** · October 29th, 2010

Luckily enough, I don't add people that I don't know with no friends in common. And it does get suspicious when a CMD window pops up (Windows) or a download window pops up (Nice, pristine, secure, fast, Linux) that tries to download a .desktop file.