Facebook Password Reset is a Trojan
Tuesday October 27, 2009
A bogus email claiming to be from The Facebook Team has been hitting users inboxes. The email claims the recipient's password had to be changed, and further claims the attachment to the email contains their new password. Unfortunately for victims, all the attachment really contains is a malicious trojan designed to bypass firewalls and install scareware onto victims' computers.
Managed email provider MX Lab has the full details here.
That won’t be a problem if you use a good antivirus software together with an IMAP/POP Email client.Check out Eset NOD32 Antivirus or Avira Premium Security Suite.
To be on a safer side, do not execute any application or Script in your web browser that has been compressed with an unusual runtime compression module such as PCK Armadillo.First,extract it using 7-Zip compression utility or uniextractor.Upon extraction,any autorun viruses packaged along with the bogus attachment will be detected immediately by a good antivirus utility.