'Indy Timeline' of Upcoming Events Virus
Last night ( Sunday, August 9,2009) I checked my email on at&T Yahoo. It said I had a message on Facebook from someone. I chick on it and thought I was going to facebook. All of sudden my software said that a change was being made, did I want to allow it. I said no,but it was to late My laptop had been affected with a virus which got over 40 files. This was the normal link that should have taken me to my facebook page and it turn out not to. BE CAREFUL IF YOU OUR ON FACEBOOK OR THE OTHER BIG SITES. Last week I heard on the news that Facebook, Twitter and Myspace had been hacked into and they were fixing the problem. Evidently, they haven't fixed it yet. I will not ever chick on Facebook again. This ruin my laptop. Yahoo said a virus could not be detected either and my software didn't catch it either. So it got though somehow. Pass this on to all of your friends, because facebook claims to have over 200 million people sign up on it. Ouch!!!!!**********
Subsequent Note by IndyChristian: [Thanks for the alert, Brian.] Things are not always what they appear to be. Such emails may or may not (really) even be via your Facebook account. Emails are somewhat easy to fake. Even links themselves can say one thing, but go somewhere completely different. So bottom line rule of thumb... don't click on stuff in an email unless you're expecting the email or know absolutely for sure that it's ok.
One tip: If unsure about a link in an email, you might want to RIGHT-click the link. Copy it. Go paste it in the address bar of your browser. That is the REAL url it will go it if clicked. So if it still looks good to you and you want to take the chance, go ahead. However, on the other hand, when you paste it, it may reveal what is obviously a BAD site/url that you wouldn't want to visit.
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