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  • 2011-05-16 (xsd:date)
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  • 'Visit the New Facebook' Virus Warning (en)
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  • Examples: [Collected via e-mail, May 2011] ATTN!!! THIS NOTICE IS DIRECTED TO EVERYONE WHO HAS A PAGE ON FACEBOOK: IF SOME PEOPLE IN YOUR PROFILE OR YOUR FRIENDS SEND YOU A LINK WITH WORDS VISIT THE NEW FACEBOOK ' AND THERE IS THE LINK BELOW, DO NOT OPEN! IF YOU OPEN IT YOU CAN SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR PAGE. IT'S A HACKER WHO STEALS YOUR DETAILS AND REMOVES YOU FROM YOUR OWN PAGE.W A R N I N G ! ! ! ! THIS NOTICE IS DIRECTED TO ANYONE WHO HAS A FACEBOOKACCOUNT: IF SOMEONE IN YOUR PROFILE OR A FRIEND SENDS YOU A LINK THAT SAYSVISIT THE NEW FACEBOOK, DO NOT OPEN. . . IF YOU DO, YOU CAN SAY GOODBYETO YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE! THIS IS ACTUALLY THE WORK OF A HACKER WHO STEALSYOUR DETAILS AND REMOVES YOU PERMANENTLY FROM YOUR OWN PAGE. PLEASECOPY.....send to your groups too....not just your friends Origins: The warning reproduced above about Facebook users being tricked into opening an attachment that promises access to the new Facebook but instead allows a hacker to steal their information and lock them out of their pages began spreading via Facebook posts and e-mail in mid-May 2011 and has continued to circulate in sporadic bursts ever since. This warning is nothing more than a hoax spread by well-meaning but credulous Facebook users: there have been no recorded instances of Visit the new Facebook come-ons containing malicious links of any kind (only warnings about such messages) and none of the major computer security/anti-virus software companies has reported users' actually encountering Facebook info-stealing malware that reached them in such fashion. (en)
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