Sunday 5 February 2017, Poradnik bezpieczeństwa

Next virus on Facebook

Lost24

Another virus on Facebook. It is not the first attack on social media portal users which we wrote about https://lost24.pl/post/55/grozny-wirus-na-facebooku. 

From the beginning of October the virus rages on Facebook. 


How does the virus work? The infected person sends to his/her friends a characteristic messages on the chat or posts on our wall. 


Certainly the messages are constructed in order to attract the recipients. It consists of our profile picture with the icon imitating the video entitled by our name. 

if we click on the placed link, we will be redirected to YouTube, where we can see information about the lack of possibility to watch the film. In order to see the recording we have to install the special extension, in this moment from our Facebook account there will be similar messages sent out to the one we received. 


If we received this kind of message and acted accordingly to the steps described above, uninstall suspected plug-ins and extensions from your browser. We also advise to change the passwords of the e-mail and social media services because the installed extension could steal them.  


On the "trusted third party service" you can see the screenshots of infected messages.