There are a number of scam Facebook pages which claim to be about the alleged girl who killed herself because of a post made on the site (although some claim it was by her mother, not her father).
Regular readers of this blog, and visitors to the Sophos Facebook page, will only too familiar with Facebook pages which trick you into “liking” and “sharing” a link with the offer of showing you salacious content of the “OMG!” or “Shocking!” variety. Rumours like this get a lot of people’s attention – and it has been exploited by the bad guys in what is becoming a genuine problem on Facebook. However, images which show the alleged conversation between the bully and victim show “Like” buttons even though it was not possible to say that you “liked” an online conversation on Facebook back in 2008. It turns out that things are rather complicated.Īccording to internet rumours, a girl called Emma killed herself on Christmas Eve 2008 after being bullied on Facebook. What is the background to this virus hoax? Okay, now that’s clear let’s look a little more deeply into this story. I’m going to say this very simply: Please stop forwarding this hoax to your friends. And by their very nature, Trojan horses cannot be self-replicating.įurthermore, there’s no such thing as malware that you can’t remove so the claim that it “will not allow you to delete it” is nonsense too.
Ironically, the warning about the hoax is spreading faster and wider, and is probably more of a nuisance, than any genuine infection.įor those who care about such things, viruses and Trojan horses are different types of malware – it’s not possible to have a virus which is a Trojan horse. However, the alerts are not based on facts, and members of the public are unwittingly perpetuating a hoax in the belief that they are helping their online friends and family avoid a nasty virus infection. WARNING:THERE IS A VIRUS GOING AROUND AGAIN, IF YOU SEE A GIRL WHO KILLED HERSELF OVER SOMETHING HER FATHER WROTE ON HER WALL DO NOT OPEN IT, IT IS A VIRUS AND IT WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO DELETE IT, PLEASE PASS THIS ON BEFORE SOMEONE OPENS IT.
The text of the warning reads as follows: Many Facebook users are spreading inaccurate messages on the social network, warning each other to beware a “virus” that claims a girl killed herself over a post her father made on her Facebook wall. And now back to the original article from August 2010. If you’ve come to this page then chances are that you have encountered one of the genuine scams, like the version of the attack we have described here. Ruby -e 'C=`stty size`.scan(/\d+/).to_i S=.NOTE: This article is mostly about a hoax which spread on Facebook in August 2010, but there have been real scams spreading virally on the social network using the disguise of a message about a girl who killed herself after her father posted a message on her wall. You can modify this line however you want by replacing the emoji characters with something else, other icons, emojis, words, whatever floats your prankboat, it’ll just scroll wildly in an incoherent mess of emoticons, then just paste the following command string into the Terminal and let ‘er rip: Those who remember the terminal snowfall trick may recall that a ruby command string can dump just about any text constantly onto your terminal window, so why not replace it with the smiling pile of poo emoji and maybe a winking face?
1: Get a Screen Filled with Scrolling Smiling Poos
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