Facebook Virus

[Catty1]

TRY THIS FIRST:

Restart your computer and press F8 just after it starts up again.

This will give you startup options.

Choose "Safe Mode with Networking"

Once you are in (icons will look big and weird) get on the net and go to www.malwarebytes.org

On the left hand side, choose the blue Download Free Version.

Save to desktop and double click to install. There will be a moment or two when it appears to not be there - but finally the scan window will open. Short Scan will be selected. Leave it at that and start the scan. It will clean out all kinds of crap and viruses. It is one of my basic cleanup tools.

The other is Spybot Search and Destroy - but do Malware first.

This could take a couple of hours total, but will save you the drive and money!

[happylabs]

TRY THIS FIRST:

Restart your computer and press F8 just after it starts up again.

This will give you startup options.

Choose "Safe Mode with Networking"

Once you are in (icons will look big and weird) get on the net and go to www.malwarebytes.org

On the left hand side, choose the blue Download Free Version.

Save to desktop and double click to install. There will be a moment or two when it appears to not be there - but finally the scan window will open. Short Scan will be selected. Leave it at that and start the scan. It will clean out all kinds of crap and viruses. It is one of my basic cleanup tools.

The other is Spybot Search and Destroy - but do Malware first.

This could take a couple of hours total, but will save you the drive and money!

I will try it when I get home. Thanks very much!!!!

[wombat2u2004]

TRY THIS FIRST:

Restart your computer and press F8 just after it starts up again.

This will give you startup options.

Choose "Safe Mode with Networking"

Once you are in (icons will look big and weird) get on the net and go to www.malwarebytes.org

On the left hand side, choose the blue Download Free Version.

Save to desktop and double click to install. There will be a moment or two when it appears to not be there - but finally the scan window will open. Short Scan will be selected. Leave it at that and start the scan. It will clean out all kinds of crap and viruses. It is one of my basic cleanup tools.

The other is Spybot Search and Destroy - but do Malware first.

This could take a couple of hours total, but will save you the drive and money!

Wow....I'm going to save this one for sure.

[Seravieve]

The people I work for have both gotten viruses on their computers recently from Facebook too. They both had to reformat the computers. It some how blocked all internet access.. so there was no way to fix it I guess. One of the computers was a business computer.. so there was a lot of important stuff lost. How annoying that people take pride in making these viruses.. I'll never understand their train of thought.

[Catlady711]

Newest one on FB is the bunch of new groups claiming to get your old home page layout back. Catch is you "have to invite ALL your friends, then register with a mobile phone number".

The thing is all you're doing is spamming your friends for them, and the 'registering' signed you up for a series of texts or surveys to be sent to your phone with a charge of anywhere from $6 per text to a flat $19.99 per month.

Oh and the "gold member" thing is a similar scam. Avoid both types of groups.