Facebook Scammers Exploiting the Video Call Features to Send Virus

It's barely a week Facebook launched its Video calling features and scammers are already exploiting the avenue to send scam and viruses to Facebook Users.

According to Sophos' Naked Security blog, "This particular scam doesn't use the actual Facebook video service as Paul has predicted they will do, but it certainly is trying to ride the media coattails and attention Facebook's announcement generated this week.

What is clever about this one is that if it were true that Facebook Video Chat was an application, you might be more easily convinced to approve the application to have more liberal permissions.”

However, there are a few more noticeable problems with the permissions request if one actually takes the time to read. After all, why would an app that comes directly from Facebook ask to access your data at any time? Facebook can already do that. It could also be argued that a video calling app shouldn’t need to post to your wall and news feed, but Google Hangouts actually does something similar on Google+.

Apparently there will still be more scam targeting dudes, who will be taking advantage of the new Facebook features.

So next time you see a wall post on Facebook that says “Enable Video Calls,” don’t click on it. If you want to set up the valid and official version of Video Chat with Skype, check out Facebook’s authentic instructions. Never download any executables or other applications claiming to enable this service.

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Categories: Facebook, Facebook Video Call, Tech News, Virus Attack

5 ways to stay safe from fake anti-virus malware attack on Macintosh

Macintosh users are finding out the hard way what Microsoft Windows users have known for a long time: Criminals want to sell them fake anti-virus software by scaring them with lies that their computer is infected.

Apple admits Mac scareware infections, promises clean-up tool

This week the scareware targeting Mac OS X users is known as "MacDefender," with variants called "MacProtector" and "MacSecurity." Here are some tips for dealing with it:

1) Apple's advice is to first try and navigate away from the dangerous fake antivirus page by "force-quitting" this dangerous application. Apple support describes the process as "chose Force Quit from the Apple menu (or press Command---Option-Esc), then choose the unresponsive application in the Force Quit window, and click force Quit."

2) In some scenarios, the Apple browser may automatically download and launch the installer for this malicious software, Apple points out. If this happens, Apple says "cancel the installation process; do not enter your administrator password." Deleting the installer immediately involves going into the Downloads folder "or your preferred download location," according to Apple, dragging the installer to the Trash and emptying the Trash.

3) One real anti-virus vendor, Intego, says if users do unexpectedly see an installation screen from MacDefender, they should not go further and install the application. "This installation screen is the normal Mac OS X installer screen, but this should only display when you expect to install software." Intego says to uncheck the "Open 'Safe' files after downloading" option in Safari, or similar options in other browsers. If a browser asks you if you want to run an installer when you did not expect to download an installer, always click the No or Cancel button.

4) Apple says it plans to have a signature-detection tool for MacDefender in the next few days. You may not want to wait. Instead, you may want to turn to real anti-virus vendors for ongoing protection against Mac-based malware, even though the Apple Macintosh has been far less a target for malware than Windows.

5) If you need to clean the MacDefender off your computer, Apple describes how to do this in its statement from May 24, noting that the malware also installs a login item in system preferences. Apple says it's not necessary to remove the login item but does explain how to do it.

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Categories: Macintosh, Virus Attack, Windows

How to enable Task Manager, Regedit, System Restore, MsConfig, Control Panel, Cmd, Run After a virus attack

That’s where tools like Re-Enable aid the user. The software programoffers to activate Windows features like Regedit, Windows Task Manager, System Restore, MsConfig or the Control Panel after a virus attack.

It displays all features in the main interface upon startup. Some or all of the apps and functions can be selected for fixing.

A click on the Re-enable button after the selection will start the recovery process.

The program offers a Tool menu on top that comes with additional troubleshooting utilities. Here it is possible to restore Safe Mode, edit Hosts files, reset files and folder attributes, unhide drives, repair the desktop, repair explorer.exe startup problems or scan for and delete autorun.inf files.

Re-Enable is a handy program to repair a system after a virus attack. The developer has created a lite version which requires the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 SP1 and a portable version which has no dependencies but is 30 times the size of the lite version (700 KB to 22 MB).

Download: Re-Enable

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Categories: Hack, Hacking, Hacking Tips, Hacking Tricks, Pro Hacking, Virus Attack