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Microsoft keeps Koobface virus off Facebook

Apr 2, 2009 General

Microsoft is going to be working with Facebook to keep the Koobface virus off the site, the companies said on Thursday.

“In working with Facebook, we were able to add detection of Koobface to our Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), which checks computers running Windows software to detect and remove viruses” said Jeff Williams, a principal group program manager for the MRST.

“The MSRT has removed Koobface nearly 200,000 times from more than 133,600 computers around the world just in the past two weeks” he also said.

Koobface is a mass-mailing virus that gives Facebook users announcements like “You look funny in this new video” and when the user clicks on the link he is prompted to download a Trojan masked as an Adobe Flash update. This Trojan can then acquire the users Facebook password and other information.

[Via CNET]


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