Call That Girl’s Guide to Being Safe on Facebook part 2

Hello folks, I hope you all read my first edition of being safe on Facebook. Enough has changed in just a few months that it’s time I put out another edition.

Login Hackers

Folks are still getting hacked the old school way on Facebook. Please change your facebook password NOW. Next, please change your email password that you log in with too and make it not the same password that your facebook has.

Weird messages/links from your friends 

Never click on strange messages from your friends, “Hey check out this cool video I am in” is a regularity on facebook. Any links with weird shortcuts as well watch out for. I would even be a bit careful about clicking on links that look “legit”. I see so many links a day and I tend to only click on the ones where others have tried it first, I see their comments and if it looks like they are “ok” then I am going to be “ok”. Risking my computers security is not worth watching a video of a cat playing the keyboards (even though that is by far the funniest video I have seen on Youtube!).

Youtube/flash install virus

Another common one I have seen going on. If you click on the fake Youtube link…aka Youtube virus, you can either download a direct virus or get a message asking you to update “flash”. This of course could be true, but most folks already have flash installed on their pc’s. Flash does their own updates, you get notifications if you need them. And they aren’t that often.

The “Dear Facebook User” Login virus

If you get a login that starts with that message and tells you that they are implementing a new login system, this is a hoax too. If you have done that and did the “updatetool.exe” download, you are probably in trouble and know it already. Sorry about that! If you have been infected, I am sure by now you have changed all of your passwords to everyone online right? I hope so. That “uploadtool.exe” is supposed to be a banking phishing attack.

Quizzes/Games

The quizzes and applications are still in question for Call That Girl. I am not really seeing folks getting hacks from them directly, but it’s still up in the air how the hackers are getting passwords. I still have a feeling that the developers are getting them from the quizzes/games, etc.

Fun with Facebook

I really have enjoyed using Facebook lately, but watching all my friends download viruses or get hacked has not been fun. Even a  computer repair gal, it’s sometimes too late for me to jump in and help.

Be careful on Facebook, have fun but again remember that screwing up your computer isn’t worth the fun of it all. I still am fixing “Koobface” viruses all the time. “Koobface” is the Facebook virus going through the system. Call That Girl can do a virus cleaning and a regular computer cleaning if you get infected.

Good luck and have fun!

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