Kingsoft PC Doctor Defense Your Account Security Away from Malicious Facebook Viruses

Sept. 15, 2011 - PRLog -- FaceBook.com, no doubt the world largest social network website. So, if one user want to share a hyperlink through his post or private message to friends, then, how many users could get the hyperlink? Tens? Hundreds? Or Thousands? We can not give you a clear number here; because the hyperlink spreads within the largest social network website of the planet.

Well, if the hyperlink is hijacked by malicious Trojan virus program, what would happen? Koobface, a famous Facebook virus, spreads itself just in that way.

Here, let us check the spread behavior of Koobface:

Koobface spreads when a user accesses his/her Facebook account. The worm creates a range of commentaries to friends’ accounts. Koobface, which targets Facebook users, creates spam messages and sends them to the infected users’ friends via the Facebook site. The messages and comments include texts such as Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street; Examiners Caught Downloading Grades From The Internet; Hello; You must see it!!! LOL. My friend catched you on hidden cam; Is it really celebrity? Funny Moments and many others.

From behavior description of Koobface virus, we can see the two simple methods of spam message and malicious URL hijacking through the process of spread of Koobface. Now, Facebook has build good defense strategy against spam message; but how should we handle the malicious hyperlinks?

Some one may take antivirus to protect computer from malicious URL hijacking and; some one would take other computer security software because of less computer resource usage.

Right here, Kingsoft PC Doctor ( http://www.kingsoftsecurity.com/ ) provide you another and efficient choice. Defense component of Kingsoft PC Doctor give computer users an instant web URL filter service while surfing online. By taking world advanced URL analysis technique and, Kingsoft Cloud Security service, Kingsoft PC Doctor can efficiently analyze each hyperlink and, block computer users suspicious URL in seconds. So, computer users can feel free to click any URL in message which is sent from friends; because Kingsoft PC Doctor shall defense you away from threats from malicious URL,

Otherwise, please let us check the download behavior of Koobface:

Messages and comments on Facebook include links. If the user clicks on this link, she/he is redirected to a site which purportedly contains a video clip. If the user tries to watch it, a message appears saying that s/he needs the latest version of Flash Player in order to watch the clip. However, instead of the latest version of Flash Player, a file called codecsetup.exe or something familiar is downloaded to the victim machine; this file is also a network worm/Trojan virus. The result is that users who have come to the site via Facebook will have the worm/Trojan downloaded to their machines, and vice versa.

Cheating and enticing Facebook users to download malicious virus program from preset hyperlink, another behavior of Koobface virus, is definitely great threat to computer security. So, how could we know the downloaded file is safe? Some one takes antivirus to detect the file after finish download and; some one even leave the file without any scan and, run the file directly. That is why the malicious Trojan/Worm virus infect target computer successfully.

Download Protection of Kingsoft PC Doctor gives Facebook users a security defense while download files from website, no matter hyperlink from Facebook or, other websites. Download Protection component shall analyze the resource of download hyperlink and, scan the downloaded file after accomplish downloading process. So, in this way, computer users can know directly if they download a file from a secure hyperlink or not and, if the downloaded file is safe without virus or not.

Kingsoft PC Doctor, must work efficiently to defense your Facebook account security away from malcious Facebook viruses, in real-time.

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