Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Koobface Virus

Ahh man the virus problem is always a big problem to many. There are periodic updates in the new kinds of virus and their mode of attack. This new virus called Koobface is closely associated with the facebook social networking site and it sends you some miscellaneous mails like they have seen some new video of yours on face book and gives you a link. When you visit it it will ask you to update your flash player leading ot the downloading of a file called flash_player.exe. This makes our computer infected nd turns them into zombies which does what ever the virus asks it to do. There are many explanations and symptoms given on renowned Anti virus sites like kaspersky and Mcafree. 

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