Watch out, do not reset password on facebook!

Where there is sugar, there is an ant. The old adage is proven true until today. The development of social networks like Facebook are very unusual to make 'bad ants' emerging since the mid-year 2009.

Bredolab or Pendex, Koobface, and other viruses in turns to attack the users of social networking. Now there's a new, similar W32/Oficla.FA Bredolab or Pendex.

The bad news, although initial variant was detected by antivirus at the end of 2009, this virus has the ability to update itself every detected by antivirus. And each time it will download a virus to infect new on the site have been prepared.

"A lot of features that allow users, a general one which is 'your Forgot your password?' Which is very useful for users who have lost or forgotten passwords of their accounts," said Adi Saputra, security experts from Vaksincom, on katerangannya, May 3rd, 2010.

"This feature is exploited by virus makers Oficla by sending an email but it contains an attachment size of 48KB Zip format to reset passwords," said Adi. "If like that, you please be careful because it could be you have been subjected to a virus attack Facebook," he said.

If you received this virus, said Adi, not just a scam (email lie) that you receive, but the email contains a virus which will install a malicious program with content that is engineered in such a way that was convincing.

Adi said, the impact of this virus is very cumbersome. "Not just your Facebook password that can be lost, but by running this virus, you've given access to all the credentials (username and password) on your computer," said Adi.

Credit card data and other financial data that were or would you use for online transactions, will be owned by the virus creator.

"Therefore, one of the best ways to avoid this virus is not easily believe what came in the mail because it can be falsified," said Adi. "Never mind the message, image or background that can be made as closely as possible with the Facebook site, the sender (from) can also be faked as if the administrators of Facebook," he said.

You are receiving this email, you should immediately remove them to avoid unwanted things. For those who already click on an attachment in an email from the 'Facebook' is, one way to clean the virus is here.

It's good if you continue to update the antivirus program you have.

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