Browser Exploit: See what you'll look in the future!

A new browser exploit has surfaced, this one takes control of a users browser without them knowing. It sends messages to all of their friends and posts messages to their walls.

This exploit says " hahah mine is hilarious!!! check yours out :)

See what you'll look in the future!

 

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This cutting-edge technology will show you exactly how your face will look in the future!"

This scam spreads very virally as it tries to put out links that users would likely click as well as take over the inftected users chat and send messages to everyone in their friends list.

First things first, if you use Internet Explorer, stop using it, it's the least secure browser and things like this WILL happen to you again if you don't.

Set your Facebook account to use SSL(basically it's military grade encryption, this makes it super difficult for hackers to attack you). If you wish you may also set your account to send you an email when someone else logs into your account.

Unfortunately now it's time for the clean up. Start an anti-virus scan, and while it's scanning go on Facebook, look through all of your out-going posts(you can see these by clicking on your name(this takes you to your profile page)) delete all of the malicious posts, and bulk message ALL of your friends let them know this happened and tell them to ignore any links that your account sent to them. Otherwise your friends will all get infected too as the scam spreads.

Now that you've done that, change your Facebook password, it is possible that it was stolen.

Who blocked you from his friend list?

I appologize for this screenshot being so messed up, I was using the snipping tool for it to hide the names of infected people and it got really buggy.

If you get an invite to this "event" don't even bother opening it, it's a scam. Just like the "Nastiest Girl" scam it it redirects your browser a few times takes you to install a malicious app.

This app grabs your profile info and asks for the permission to create events on your behalf.

one of the malicious apps that this event links to, look at the permissions it asks for.

What this app then does is spam your friends with these fake events until all of your friends finally fall for the scam and this app spreads virally filling everyones event inbox's with complete junk. It is unknown what the app does with your personal information, it may store it somewhere, sell it, or be used for other scams.

OMG Watch the Nastiest Girl Fight Video Ever

A Scam has popped up now taking advantage of people who don't realize the difference between apps and Events on Facebook. This scam spreads by people "attending" and inviting others to attend the event. This event spreads virally just like all of the other scams I've reviewed.

The Event page looks like this:

As pictured the profile picture for this event displays a picture of a girl with a play button over her. This is not a real video, it is simply just a picture on the event page. Users fall prey to the scam by clicking the link posted in the description of the event. Installing and giving a malicious app permissions over their account.

Some users, not all, claim that they do see a video after clicking the link. These people may be trolls, they also may be fake accounts created by the scammer to try to convince people to click the link.

If someone were really trying to show you some nasty video, they would show it to you on youtube or another popular online video service. Don't fall for these scams.

Facebook Dislike button scam

This one's pretty old but it still comes back every now and again so I feel it's important to put out there.
Facebook has a like button but no Dislike button. Many people including myself think a dislike button would be cool and kinda funny too. Unfortunately Facebook didn't create one because they felt that the dislike button would be abused and used at bad times. Here are some fake examples of when the dislike button would be used causing many upset people.

My Mom just fund out she no longer has cancer - dislike

Just got a new dog - dislike

 We have a new addition to the family today, a new baby BOY!!! - dislike

 Scammers took advantage of the fact many people wanted a dislike button on Facebook. They started creating groups, pages, and even apps that would say "like this" to get access to the dislike button.
All of these are fake, liking their pages won't enable anything except support the scam.

Now even though I just said that these are a scam, there is actually one way you can have your dislike button, legitimately

The only way to have a dislike button without Facebook creating one. Is to use a browser extension, greasemonkey script or add-on.

There is a catch though. only people with the same add-on as you can see your dislikes. This is due to the fact that the dislikes are stored in the addon creators servers and not the facebook servers.
Here is a link to the Mozilla Firefox Dislike button add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/facebook-dislike/.

 

 

See who looks at your profile/how many times has your profile been viewed?

There has been a scam around lately where supposedly if you added an app it would let you view who looks at your Facebook profile.

Some apps even claim if you add their app you can see how many times your profile has been viewed.

These are complete scams. The only people who could tell you that information is Facebook. Why? because the code required to count as well as see who's looking at your profile, has to be on your profile since it's creation. That code is not there. Before Facebook revamped their profile pages again you used to see thousands of apps with crap all over your page. Those apps still could not identify which friends visited your page, they could however count how many page visits you got, they were incredibly inaccurate though. Facebook no longer has that same system though. No apps can count how many friends view your profile or which ones are doing it.

These scams are usually survey scams and are viral, they tend to post messages to your wall without you knowing.

Girl killed herself, after her dad posted this to her wall -scam app

This is probably the worst of all of the Facebook scams I've seen. You may have actually seen this one floating around Fbook yourself. Basically the app uses phrases like "Girl killed herself, after her dad posted this to her wall". The app posts to users walls sentences like that in hopes of getting someone to click the link. Once you click the link there are a few things that will happen, they will try to trick you into liking their page, get you to fill out a survey(it earns them money), collect your personal information, as well as exploit Facebook Connect, One friend I've seen has had the malicious exploit send messages to all of his friends. Now all of his friends have the same problem. You can fix this issue however.

One of the Facebook pages it tries to get you to "like"

If you or a friend fell prey to this scam you can fix the problem. Unfortunately though if you gave them your personal info, they will still have it(there is no way to change that). This video provided by Sophos will teach you how to fix the issue.