Comments on: Virus Alert: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation Support Message Attachments

By: CARRIE

CARRIE — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:50:45 +0000

I’VE BEEN TRYING TO ACCESS MY FACEBOOK ACCOUNT BUT I FORGOT MY PASSWORD AND TRIED TO RESET MORE THAN ONCE AN NOW I’M GETTING THE MESSAGE THAT I HAVE REACHED THE LIMIT OF PASSWORD RESET ATTEMPTS. IS THEIR ANYONE THAT CAN HELP WITH THIS PROBLEM. THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE. CARRIE

By: Rajesh Chaukwale

Rajesh Chaukwale — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:11:17 +0000

Well, this happens to me many a times. Usually, our (bloggers) email is exposed on our blogs so that readers can contact us. This serves as an invitation for many phishers and keyloggers as you’ve mentioned in the article. Its better to share it with all our readers to make them cognizant about the dangers online.
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By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:50:23 +0000

That’s what people should be doing. Disseminating useful information both online and off.
Thanks for the comment, Sire!

By: Sire

Sire — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:41:31 +0000

Hi get this sort of stuff all the time and usually post it on my Load Of Bullsh*t site as a warning to others. I think it's good that we warn others of these types of emails to warn them of the dangers of opening .exe files or of supplying personal information on the net. It's good to see others are doing the same. .-= Sire´s last blog ..Promoting MyDomain Brand Me Contest. =-.

By: James Moralde

James Moralde — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:10:29 +0000

Thanks Math, will do as you suggested. .-= James Moralde´s last blog ..Possible Facebook Trojan Effect: Probable Free Trojan Removal Solution? =-.

By: Possible Facebook Trojan Effect: Probable Free Trojan Removal Solution?

Possible Facebook Trojan Effect: Probable Free Trojan Removal Solution? — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:08:34 +0000

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By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:07:38 +0000

@James,
I’m more terrible than you do because my curiosity pushed me to even download the attachment, extract it and run the executable file.

I’ve had the same experience like you do wherein AVG will tag a web page as harmful. It happened to my Google Feedburner account wherein I couldn’t login for a month. It depends on your browser actually.

I don’t think your case will be resolved by my upcoming post regarding the above scenario because it seems different. However, I’d suggest that you run a full PC scan with your antivirus (must be AVG 9.0) and spyware (try Spybot) and make sure that they are updated. Try to clear up your browser cookies, cache, and history regularly. It worked for me.

Let me know what comes up.

By: HOW TO Remove Fake Antivirus Software

HOW TO Remove Fake Antivirus Software — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:07:00 +0000

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By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:40:24 +0000

@Ching Ya
Your presence and comment is appreciated on this blog. I’ve been writing similar posts of this kind since I started blogging in 2008 and during the Conficker scare of 2009. It’s good to know that I was able to help a lot of people from my posts based on real life experiences and not just mere theoretical observations and rewritten scripts scraped from the internet.

Your observations are true, we can’t be less vigilant nowadays.

@bbrian017
Curiosity kills the cats as they say but curiosity leads to discovery. If in your opinion that only less techie people are sent with these emails, then you basically don’t need to read these kinds of posts because it seems that you don’t need it anyway.

This blog is not an aggregate of recycled information, fictional/fabricated stories and scraped technology news or a hub for long winded theories of online SEO.

By: James Moralde

James Moralde — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:34:37 +0000

I received such an email twice. The first time, I opened the email and upon reading it knew it as a virus/trojan carrier, so I didn’t even hover over the attachment and closed it (though I didn’t delete it).

But soon after, I began to see a red popup that says AVG (which is the antivirus software in my laptop) has blocked a possible unsafe site.

Hey Math, please go ahead and post about your method of removing it. I think I got it in my laptop because even sites I trust like Sire’s (and one of mine) was deemed unsafe by the AVG popup (though not all the time). It’s evidently a fake security popup. How can such a virus go through both AVG and Zone Alarm?
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By: bbrian017

bbrian017 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:21:15 +0000

I've heard about it but I didn't actually see it. Perhaps they only send it to face book users they think aren't tech savvy lol. I woudl had spotted a virus and hack attempt from a mile away. .-= bbrian017´s last blog ..I’m working on my e-book everyone =-.

By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:33:56 +0000

This is dreadful and outrageous. It’s tricky and anyone could have overlooked and click the attachment straight away. I have tweeted this and shared on my fan page. Wonderful work done here Math for bringing up this security issue, can’t be too careful these days.

@wchingya
Social/Blogging Tracker
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By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:53:41 +0000

Hey Taufiq,
It’s nice to see you back! I guess you’re lucky to not receive something similar but in case anytime in the future, you’ll definitely have an idea.

By: Gojeg

Gojeg — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:05:34 +0000

Hi, long time no see this blog. Your blog has a very good improvement..
Hmm, I had never received message like that, lucky me!
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