Facebook users warned

'You have been tagged': Facebook users warned that picture emails may infect their PCs with a virus

A new virus is spreading via one of the few emails we ALL click on - alerts that you have been 'tagged' in a picture on Facebook.

The emails, which look like Facebook's own alerts, directs users to a page to view the new picture they have appeared in.

People often follow such links to ensure they are looking their best - or at least not looking their worst.

The new spam campaign instead redirects the user to a site which attempts to infect the computer with malicious software - but a few seconds later, is redirected to a real Facebook page.

People could be infected without even being aware the attack had happened.

'Be wary of emails claiming to be from Facebook, and saying that you have been tagged in a photograph,' says Sophos Security's Graham Cluley.

'SophosLabs has intercepted a spammed-out email campaign, designed to infect recipients' computers with malware. If you click on the link in the email, you are not taken immediately to the real Facebook website.'

'Instead, your browser is taken to a website hosting some malicious iFrame script (which takes advantage of the Blackhole exploit kit, and puts your computer at risk of infection by malware).'
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There are certain giveaways that the email is not all it seems, however - the email is misspelt, with the word 'Faceboook' instead of 'Facebook'.

'Even if you didn't notice that 'Faceboook' was spelt incorrectly, you could have seen by hovering your mouse over the link that it wasn't going to take you directly to the genuine Facebook website,' says Cluley.

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