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Warning to Facebook users....

PROLIANT
PROLIANT Posts: 6,396 Forumite
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edited 15 April 2009 at 6:19PM in Techie Stuff
Hi guy's, just a quick warning when typing the following in your browser when navigating to facebook - don't type facebook.cm make sure you have the full.com on the end or you will be infected with a virus, I found that out today however my Anti-Virus caught the bug before it caused any harm.

Just in case, that’s all. ;)


Regards

Proliant
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
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  • Jaffa.
    Jaffa. Posts: 1,193 Forumite
    Ouch, at least you stopped it from spreading with the antivirus - I can imagin many people accendently typing that in, it's an easy one to do .com without the o

    I was tempted to type it in but I didn't :p
  • Marty_J
    Marty_J Posts: 6,594 Forumite
    I did type it in; it's some stupid page with "viral videos" on it. I wasn't infected with a a virus though, and neither will anyone else who has enough sense not to use Windows.

    Safari warned me about it when I attempted to visit. Firefox did not.

    Here's Google's diagnostic page for it:

    http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?tpl=safari&site=facebook.cm&hl=en-us
  • DatabaseError
    DatabaseError Posts: 4,161 Forumite
    fifefox (via win7)
    This web site at facebook.cm has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences.
    ignoring all warning goes to...videos (which play!)
    Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant.
  • Marty_J
    Marty_J Posts: 6,594 Forumite
    Firefox on my Mac says nothing.
  • PROLIANT
    PROLIANT Posts: 6,396 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Marty_J wrote: »
    I did type it in; it's some stupid page with "viral videos" on it. I wasn't infected with a a virus though, and neither will anyone else who has enough sense not to use Windows.

    Safari warned me about it when I attempted to visit. Firefox did not.

    Here's Google's diagnostic page for it:

    http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?tpl=safari&site=facebook.cm&hl=en-us
    Cheers Marty, the reason you were not infected was that the dodgy code is Win32.
    It seems to be some kind of worm.
    Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
  • PROLIANT
    PROLIANT Posts: 6,396 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    fifefox (via win7)
    videos (which play!)
    Any good? :confused:
    Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
  • Marty_J
    Marty_J Posts: 6,594 Forumite
    Weird that Firefox still didn't warn me about it though.

    Safari gives me this:

    20090415-r7c7t9x99ngpj3a6tn474d5hg1.jpg
  • Baldur
    Baldur Posts: 6,565 Forumite
    Firefox on Vista gives this:

    Facebook-FFAlert.jpg
  • gaming_guy
    gaming_guy Posts: 6,128 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    i visited it using a throw-away xp VM & IE, no warning so far. im off to scan with mbam etc now
  • PROLIANT
    PROLIANT Posts: 6,396 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Marty_J wrote: »
    Weird that Firefox still didn't warn me about it though.

    Safari gives me this:

    20090415-r7c7t9x99ngpj3a6tn474d5hg1.jpg
    Maybe Mr Firefox was busy doing other things? :think:

    firefox.jpg
    Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
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