FaceBook virus and hacks spreading.

[Jelly Bean]

Ok I will try and explain what has happened with FaceBook over the past two weeks and it continues.

 

The issue started when a Chris Hunt from Swansea posted infected videos.Then a Dai Barrett and his daughter also posted the infected videos.Why because they clicked Chris Hunts videos.How many others have clicked them I do not know.

 

This now starts all the issues.

 

What is happening now is:

 

Example: Dai barrett posts four of the infected videos to four of his friends.They in turn click the video link attached.Infact Dai did not send the videos.

 

Then the four friends who clicked the video unbeknown to them the video is sent to four of there friends who click the attached link and so it goes on.

 

Now the effect of this is we have Chris Hunt,Dai Barrett and his daughter keighly Barrett infected plus there friends.

 

Now myself and many others are receiving messages in our inboxes,these messages contain a text like hey your booty looks good in this and a link is also attached.I do not open these messages I just click spam button.

 

From Chris Hunts profile is sent 20 of these infected spam messages to people on his friends list.Then if each of these 20 friends click the link they then unknown to them send to each of there 20 friends this spam infected hack link.And so it continues.

 

Now Dai Barrett and his daughter have also unknowingly done this also.

 

So god knows how many people have been infected and hacked.

 

The only advice I can give is to update and run your antivirus program and run it.Although depending how your infected your AV will not fix the issues.

 

I have offered several forums including this one for any malware infections you suspect you have or you do have.Get the trained people to fix the issues.

 

I have advised DO NOT click any links or videos on your profile sent by friends or any sent your inbox untill this issue is resolved.I do not know how far this has spread.

 

I have warned the three named above to have there system cleaned or reformatted but they refuse so the infection spreads.

 

Has anyone got a clue what is going on?

 

I am overloaded with complaints and cannot deal with so many infected computers.

 

Is it possible there IPs have been taken control of or there wireless routers?

 

Any advice would be great.

[Plastic Nev]

Not a lot you can do yourself in this case JB. The only thing you can do is fend off those people by telling them to get their machines cleaned up, either professionally and pay good money, or to come here or other forums for expert advice and help.

The folk in charge of Facebook, if not already informed, should be, and it is up to them to remove the offending infected video's.

As general advice to others using Facebook, there is more and more infected stuff being posted, be careful and don't click any links or video downloads, even if you trust the person who supposedly sent it. It may not be them, and is as JB says, the virus itself is getting addresses and posting itself on.

[Jelly Bean]

My advice to others who received the infected links to there inboxes was to hit the spam button.

 

They must of hit the spam button as now accounts have been deleted by FaceBook.