Facebook users have suffered from network worms

Company ESET reported that many users of social network Facebook have become victims of the worm Win32/Yimfoca।AA and Win32/Fbphotofake.

Network worms Win32/Yimfoca.AA and Win32/Fbphotofake headed a rating of threats in Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. They use to attack chat in Facebook and can be introduced in Skype, MSN and Yahoo Messenger.

In addition, Win32/Yimfoca.AA can download and run other malware, available online (including fake antivirus), change the security settings and disable Windows firewall. Win32/Fbphotofake uses social engineering techniques, spread with the help of spam messages in the social network Facebook.
In the ESET advise users of social networks to be very careful not to open suspicious attachments and emails from unknown authors, and do not go to the bad links.