Ankit Fadia warns users not to download unknown mails or click on pop-up messages
Addicted to Facebook? Beware, your passion for active cyber social networking might usher in doom for your system. One wrong click and you might invite the worst guests into your computer - virus! Thus warns renowned ethical hacker and cyber expert, Ankit Fadia, who highlighted on the new trend of spreading virus through social networking sites, especially Facebook.
Be careful while downloading anything from Facebook, even it has come as a mail from your best friend, he said. Talking exclusively to DNA, during his visit to the Ahmedabad, Fadia, warned users about the latest trend of infiltrating viruses through Facebook seen for the last few months. Thus a mistaken click might help the virus infiltrate your computer system through the backdrop.
He said that just one click and all contacts will receive a message from your facebook account. It all begins with an anonymous mail. If this mail is clicked on any facebook account, a pop-up box asks permission to download with options 'yes' and 'no'.
"If the person clicks on the YES button on the pop-up message, all the 'friends' listed on the person's account receives the same message and simultaneously virus is infiltrated in other computers," Fadia told DNA. He further said that the only solution to this problem is to never click on the ‘yes’ button, or on any other anonymous messages.
Fadia said that this is the latest modus operandi that has been seen to actively used by cyber criminals for the last few months to infiltrate virus in computers. Once Trojan is installed in a computer they can get access to victims' computers.
However, the old methods of infiltrating virus through the spam emails etc are still in practice, but the latest trend is connected to the social networking sites, mainly facebook. However, the virus cannot be infiltrated until the user does not commit the mistake of clicking on the ‘yes’ button on the pop-up message.
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