Secret Crush to Crash Your Computer

A new Facebook application brings the popular social networking service back in the spotlight, as it attempts to take users on a dangerous website and deploy malicious files on their computers. ‘Secret Crush’ is a Facebook application claiming that it is able to disclose the friend’s name that has a “secret crush” for a certain registered member. The application requires Facebook members to invite five other friends to use it, but instead of revealing the secret admirer, ‘Secret Crush’ takes the users to a malicious website attempting to drop an infection.

One of the infections has been identified as MyWebSearch, a computer threat that displays unwanted pop-up adverts on all the affected computers. (more…)

Written by Jason on January 5th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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