Wednesday, August 26, 2009

How to avoid Koobface virus

Friends are you using face book, my space, etc, beware of koobface virus, this is a virus which can take information from your desktop and send to unknown person, this virus is rapidly spreading world wide, in India this virus has affected thousands of computers, so India computer emergency response team asked the computer users to update the anti virus tool regularly, they also advised computer users not to open mails which come from unknown person. Mostly these mails will be in the name of websites like My Space, Face book, etc, as soon as you click on the link given in the mail, this virus will enter your registry and take your user ids and passwords which you enter in various websites, and this information will be sent to the unknown person.

To prevent this Koobface virus have a good anti virus tool with regular updates, enable your firewall settings so that once you enter a virus site it will reduce the penetration of spasm and malwares to your computer.

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