I hope people can spread this around, especially on the web community. Someone apparently managed to get hold of Facebook accounts and have been spreading malicious links through personal messages. The message goes something like this,

Title: I hope, your friends will see this film as well.

<Embedded Link to a video>
Vid title: Tom’s Secret Video.
Vid link: http://84.108.31.41:7777/?ch=&ea=
Vid link on message: http://youtube-go.webs.com/index.htm?chd6=77c3c663ec3ef52be1af2460e1e9cd4d

First suspicion - The link was trying to “spoof” youtube.
Second suspicion - When you click the link, it’ll bring you to a webpage with a javascript application with an embedded flash video-screen (akin to Youtube). Thereafter, it’ll ask you to update your flash player.

The flash player update was defintely disturbing. Usually, Adobe flash updates are a re-direct to their official website and not an embedded flash-update.exe file. Thus, I drew the line and I Googled the message.

A few links enlightened me of the issue and it is in fact, a malicious attempt to infect your PC.

Solution:
Download and run any free, reputable anti-virus softwares around (I recommend AVG or Avast). Thereafter, to be safe, change your Facebook account password! If you had them running prior to the installation, there were reports that these scanners actually did a real-time scan and saved your PC’s ass. You’re save!

Otherwise, a thorough scan would be great! And please, drop a message to your kind friend who had just sent you the Facebook message, telling him to scan his PC and change his password. Good luck!

P/s: If you are running Mac or Linux, you’d probably be safe. The binary file is a Windows executable. I tried installing it on Fedora and it just gave me an error (duh!). Doubt there’ll be any difference with Mac OS. Oh well! haha..