Watch Out for Fake Viruses Facebook Photo

This updated guide examines Watch Out for Fake Viruses Facebook Photo and organizes the essential facts, background, and practical takeaways in clear American English.

The message containing the virus link is sent automatically via Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger.

On July 5, the Foto virus was previously warned to suddenly come back with a new, easy-to-fool type of users to click on, especially those who are using Facebook social networks.

Quite a lot of friends and colleagues have been in distress, chat windows automatically pop out, send a series of links in the form of hxxp: //ow.ly./http:///www.facebook.com/photo. php . When clicked to see it will lead to the address containing the file named n11975310_09. JPG-www.facebook.exe , it will penetrate and run in the system background as the file jusched.exe.

The specific path of the jusched.exe file:

- Windows XP: C: WINDOWSjusched.exe - Windows Vista / 7: C: UsersPublicjusched.exe

Next, the virus corrects the following files in Windows:

C: Windowssystem32LogonUI.exe C: WindowsSystem32lsm.exe C: WindowsSystem32svchost.exe C: WindowsSystem32wininit.exe

Ow.ly website provides web address shortening service so it is used to deceive users. Readers should be wary of shortened forms of links like bit.ly, ow.ly. because hackers often use to hide the original link containing malicious code.

Readers should be aware that links are automatically sent via instant messaging (IM) programs such as Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger to avoid being infected. Since the virus is infected, the victim will not know that his account has been used to send a virus-containing link to all addresses in the directory.

You can see how to kill Foto virus here or use anti-virus programs like Panda Antivirus, Kaspersky Antivirus, BitDefender Antivirus, Norton Antivirus. When the latest virus signature database is updated and implementing real-time protection will prevent this virus from entering the system.