Monday, September 5, 2011

Facebook: “ATTENTION EVERY FARMVILLE NEIGHBOR - THERE IS A WHITE GIFT BOX” Virus Hoax is Spreading Wild

By Cesar Ortiz
Facebook Farmville users are hereby warned not to waste their time clicking or forwarding this message post. It is a hoax. There is no virus anywhere. Users will receive this message:

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ATTENTION EVERY FARMVILLE NEIGHBOR - THERE IS A WHITE GIFT BOX ...surrounded by a blue lace. It says "someone has sent you a gift" ... IT ISN'T BEING SENT BY FARMVILLE !!! IT'S A VIRUS!!! PLEASE DO NOT OPEN.. PLEASE COPY A PASTE THIS ON YOUR WALL SO THAT WE CAN ALL PROTECT EACH OTHER...........Very important KEEP IT GOING”

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Nothing evil on the contents of the post. No harm is done. We and all security experts that have researched this post agree that there is no malware related to the message. Since this message is reaching almost a million hits, you can imagine what a waste of time and resources this one is. We are glad that so far, as of this date, there is no harm involved. Those critics that say that we only publish malware related items, take note, this one is not a malware. Just ignore it or delete it from your desktop wall to save space and avoid that others will re-post to friends.

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