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Is there anyway to remove it once you have it?

How hard can it be to look at the address for the website you are logging into? To stop the virus spreading, we need to somehow conquer the problem of deficient IQs in humanity…a long shot!

I don’t disagree Brian - but there’s not much hope as e-mail viruses have been running for years and all you need do is not open attachments from strangers… and now phishing attacks from banks, ebay, paypal etc are just as common and affect the same section of society - people who don’t double check what they’re doing.

how can i remove it from my pc, i got infected TT.

I got it last night and mistakenly downloaded it. This morning after my IT professional boyfriend cleaned my computer, I read my email. I had a message from facebook.com in there. They disabled my account for appearing to be a spammer. I’ve used facebook for 6 years without incident. The one time I mistakenly download a horrible virus, they pulled my account. I have emailed them several times explaining that I’m not a spammer. I’m just flabbergasted by their approach to handling the virus. I had no prior warning about this less than a month old virus when I mistakenly downloaded it. I’m very surprised that the site doesn’t contain warnings about this trojan horse virus.

Just like beeble I accidentally downloaded it last night. My boyfriend fixed it and I promptly e-mailed everyone on my friends list warning them not to open the file. I think only about two of them did and not everyone on my friends list was affected. However, this morning I tried to access my account to find it, too, was disabled. I have e-mailed Facebook but only received an automated reply. There are plenty of posts and threads on the internet about this and it seems that although Facebook has worked towards blocking the links plenty of people have still had their accounts disabled.

@Charlie & Beeble: You’ve got to be able to recognize that Facebook is just trying to protect their users. You unwittingly allowed a malicious program to exploit your user list and so of course Facebook needs to stop that. It’s not a punishment, it’s simply them attempting to stop it from spreading. They’re likely also tracing where it was sent so they can stop it there as well.

I’m sure your Facebook account will be up and running again in no time. As for warnings - where would they put them and who would read them?

Fair enough but surely once they recognise the issue some sort of email could be sent to those affected explaining this and letting us know how long we should expect to wait. This wouldn’t be so hard seeing as this virus has been around since the beginning of the month. Long enough, in fact for one Facebook representative to claim they had a fix for it. That way innocent users wouldn’t feel that they’re being punished and everyone would have more of an idea of what is going on. As for warnings they could put them in the same place the suite101 or new facebook banners went - they certainly seemed noticeable.

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