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It is estimated around 120 million Facebook users attacked by a virus called "Koobface" using the features of a social networking site for menginfeksi PC. Once spread, the virus will also try to search for sensitive information such as credit card numbers. Koobface is the latest hacker attacks that target users of social networking sites.

"Some type of virus had been using Facebook to reproduce themselves," said spokesman Barry Facebook Shnitt in an e-mail that said that "a small number of users" have to have this virus. "Seizures such as this are rampant, with a relative other attacks such as email," said Craig Schmugar, researchers from McAfee




Koobface attack by sending messages to friends from PC users who already have it. Messages sent titled as "You look just awesome in this new movie" that will take users to sites that require users download the update as claimed Flash player from Adobe Systems, like a virus as the YouTube video.

Please note that Koobface is not a new type of worm. Koobface first appeared in August, although variants of the first special target Facebook users first seen months last Wednesday.

When users download the application, they will contract a virus that will take users to sites that tekontaminasi when they try to use search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and Live.com, according to McAfee.

In the McAfee blog written Wednesday yesterday, researchers from McAfee warns that Koobface attacks are launched on Facebook.

Messages received in the Facebook can only be sent only by members of Facebook, said Chris Boyd, researchers from FaceTime Security Labs. Therefore, users are usually not too suspicious of the messages they receive. "Users are usually unguarded. They think that to send a message you would have to enter your account so do not be possible worms or viruses," continued Boyd.

MySpace social networking site owned by News Corp. have been attacked by a variant Koobface August yesterday, but after solved by technology, their security, the virus has not attacked again since then, said the spokesperson for MySpace.

Facebook has been said to the users to delete emails contaminated and require users to visit www.facebook.com/security on the way to have a clean computer.

McAfee has not identified the perpetrators behind the Koobface continuously develop the capability to penetrate virus security systems Facebook and MySpace.