iPhone 5 Facebook Malware
Happy Thursdays Facebookers! I'd like to present your "Spam of the day" complete with fun screenshots. Today's delectable temptation? Look! It's your first comprehensive tour of the iPhone 5! Better yet, it's courtesy of a site you've NEVER heard of because that's exactly how Apple likes to run their marketing. I can only hope you weren't fooled.
Let's start with the basics. If you see in your news feed that a friend has posted this on their wall:
Don't click this. Maybe try blending it but don't click it.
Please let it be noted that I took the following screenshot in a save environment. If you try this on an unsecure PC, especially in an old Internet Explorer browser (pre IE9) the results will be very unpleasant.
If you do click through to the "Tech News" you will get a series of screens asking you to prove you aren't a bot - because naturally they don't want any spam apps checking out the goods and clogging up their legitimate site. It looks like this:
As you click through the various phases, several things are happening. You are quietly accepting permission to post to your Facebook wall (it's a share button) and because there are multiple clicks I'm certain you are also installing a botnet on your PC. You really don't want to click all the way though here in a non-test environment. If you did it in Chrome or Firefox you are also ok. If you used IE 6-8, you probably just blew up your system. Sorry.
Anyhow, for most of you, all you did was re-post that original link to your own wall. You should probably delete it so you don't spread your germs. You should probably like, share and re-blog this post too. Just a suggestion.
Have a wonderful malware-free afternoon!
PS: Apologies to my friend who did click through while I was testing what it does. I need to remember my links are generally trusted and I should do this stuff on a blank account.
