Network World

Nah, the post on allfacebook.com is dated Jan 3rd, while Fortinet's advisory is dated Jan 2nd.

It's sad to believe that there are three million people still out there whom will install anything that sounds cool.

Be careful, people!

My question, is how socially desperate does one have to be to fall for the "find your secret crush" schtick?

http://businessopinions.blogspot.com/2008/01/newsflash-not-every-facebook-app-is.html

Unfortunately, it doesn't take much to entice a 17 year old boy. My son got sucked into this trick and it brought in an awful lot of ugly stuff. It took an outside company to clean my computer for me because it was so infected. He learned a hard lesson.

it's interesting to note they (social hackers) chose Facebook for this exploit rather than Myspace. what does this say about Faebook users?

This app. is still all over facebook I think they have renamed it crushes, after you invite 5 friends it refreshes the page and redirects you totally away from facebook and tries to get you to download a twinky/zwinky (or whatever those on-line dolls are called!)

I also found 'eAcceleration'? .inf files on my machine after I uninstalled the crushes app. - others have also reported random redirections to other pages after uninstalling the app.



The reason people use these crush thingies is - heck who doesn't want to know if someone from the past maybe had a secret crush on you or still does ? - crushes aren't just for kids!