Facebook and other social networking sites are being attacked by a viral worm, commonly known as Koobface.The koobface virus is spreading through facebook and is purported to be a harvester of personal information such as passwords and credit card info. This worm will spread from your account to that of all of your friends if you become infected. Koobface looks for cookies stored on your computer by social networking sites such as facebook, netlog, myspace, bebo, fubar, friendster and livejournal. Evade this annoyance by following the tips below:-
1. Boot into safe mode
2. Remove the following registry keys (note that the entire string is wrapped)
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\”systray” = “c:\windows\mstre6.exe”
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\”systray” = “C:\Windows\fbtre6.exe”
HKCU\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating
HELP:
3. Delete the following files (and empty recycle bin)
C:\Windows\fbtre6.exe
C:\Windows\fmark2.dat
4. Restart in normal startup mode
Thats it.. If you have recovered from infection, Facebook recommends that you also change your account password as your old password may have been harvested or compromised by the virus.
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