In case it wasn’t already obvious, you shouldn’t click on that porn video on Facebook (NASDAQ:FB).
A video claiming to be of porn has been spreading around Facebook and infecting users. The video links to a site and asks users to update their Flash player to see the video. Over 100,000 unlucky users were unfortunate enough to discover that this actually downloaded malware to their computers, reports The Guardian.
Users that fell prey to the fake Facebook porn video had their accounts taken over. After taking control of the account, the malware shares the video on with the user’s friends, helping its growth. Those more than 100,000 users infected by it was just two days of its rampage and the social media company has announced it’s working to stop the spread, The Guardian notes.
Facebook users that know the social media website’s Terms of Service are aware that porn isn’t allowed on the platform. Section 3.7 of these terms states that users can’t post content that includes “hate speech, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.”
The Facebook Security Tips page warns users against clicking or downloading something on the website without first thinking about it.
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