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Koobface worm
A rogue application that is plaguing Facebook and other social network sites. It is spread by a link that looks like a video. What it does is ... Facebook is all over it. Every time Koobface, or one of its variants rears its ugly head on the Internet, Facebook has implemented safeguards to protect its users from attack. See cnet or Scientific American articles for details about how the worm spreads and what it does.
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- Category: Social media
- Company: Facebook
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