| Facebook is a social networking tool for | | | | If a Facebook user is infected by the virus "Koobface", |
| communicating with friends. Users can add friends and | | | | lots of messages with such kind of title as "You look |
| send them messages, and update their personal | | | | just awesome in this new movie", etc, will be sent out |
| profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, | | | | to his friends. The friends who receive the messages |
| users can join networks organized by city, workplace, | | | | will be directed to other website which claims that they |
| school, and region. The website's name came from the | | | | should download the so-called updated software of |
| colloquial name of books given at the start of the | | | | Adobe Flash Player. If the computer users indeed |
| academic year by university administrations in the hope | | | | download the required software, then the computers |
| of helping students get to know each other better. | | | | are going to be infected. |
| Nowadays, however, a virus named "Koobface" is | | | | Recently, Facebook virus attacks Google Reader and |
| turning its point to all the users of the famous social | | | | Picasa, which throw their users into threats. Therefore, |
| networking sites. This virus can distribute all kinds of | | | | people who have these software installed, remember |
| curious web links through the information system of | | | | not to casually click any unknown links, in case of |
| the social networking site. People are prompted to click | | | | getting infected. You need to have a security tool to |
| those links, which results in their computers getting | | | | safeguard your computer, such as Spyware Cease, to |
| infected, and their personal privacy information, such as | | | | protect your computer against virus attacks. |
| credit card number, etc, being stolen. | | | | |