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Facebook Malware

Posted Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 7:56 am

Got this e-mail this morning and it was too delicious not to share.

DearĀ Facebook user,

Due to Facebook policy changes, all Facebook users must submit a new, updated account agreement, regardless of their original account start date.
Accounts that do not submit the updated account agreement by the deadline will have restricted.

Please unzip the attached file and run “agreement.exe” by double-clicking it.

Thanks,
The Facebook Team

The mail appears to come fromĀ Facebook <update+ogqlkohachj@facebookmail.com>. Facebookbmail.com? really? And you want me to execute an EXE file?

I thought we were past this, guys. We live in an age of drive-by malware infections from legitimate websites and botnets 10,000+ strong. And you’re sending executables in zip files?

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