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Koobface is a real piece of malware that began circulating in late 2008 via messages sent through social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. However, since mid-2010 warnings about Koobface circulated online have mutated into a versions which are largely hoaxes: Koobface is not spreading like wildfire on Facebook (social networking increased their protection in the wake of such malware outbreaks, so Koobface largely stopped using them as a means of transmission), there is no evidence that Koobface was ever widely spread via Barack Obama Clinton Scandal messages, and the warning about SmartGirl15 was just another updating of another long-running Internet hoax. Back in 2008, the Koobface e-mails arrived with subject lines such as You look so amazing funny on our new video and You look just awesome in this new movie and offered recipients links to video sites that appeared to contain movie clips. When users followed the links and attempted to play those videos, however, they got error messages informing them that they need to download a file to update their Adobe Flash Flash software, and that download (flash_player.exe) contained malicious Koobface code: Facebook sent the following instructions to users whose accounts may have been compromised:
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