FaceBook is very popular and there are about 400 million FaceBook users around the world.  Experts believe millions of users will fall for this attack and get infected.  Yes, that’s right – millions of FaceBook users will be infected by this targeted attack.

Unfortunately, 400 million users makes for a big opportunity for delivering malicious software.  Hence, Inboxes all over the world are being flooded with SPAM that is trying to induce FaceBook users to click on an attachment.  This attachment installs Trojans and other malware that is very dangerous to the computer user.   And unless their security software catches it, they will have no idea it is on their computer.

Our advice:

• Never clink on any link or open any attachment in any email that warns of dire consequences – be it about FaceBook or your bank, or anything else.
• Keep your anti-virus software up-to-date.
• Periodical scan your computer with a tool specially made for finding and eliminating malware.  One of the best is MalwareBytes Anti-Malware freeware version, which can be downloaded from http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You can help end spam by submitting it to:

 http://www.knujon.com/index.html.

Knujon.com has already succeeded in shutting down over 50,000 junk mail sites.

They analyze spam and work to shut down the spammers at the source.  There are more details at the web site, but basically all you have to do is to forward any spam you receive to the following email address:

nonregistered@coldrain.net

One easy way is to select a bunch of the spam emails and forward them all as attachments.  The also web site describes a number of other ways to send spam to them.