110,000 People are Looking For Love in all the Wrong Places

and getting a nasty infection too. A click-bait trick where a picture is made to look like a video that ‘requires’ Flash is circulating Facebook. The malware installs a Trojan to the computer, allowing the mouse and keyboard to be hijacked as well as labels the person who clicked on it a pervert who shared and tagged up to 20 of his or her friends onto the original picture.

Facebook is trying to eliminate these campaigns, Google also has been moving all of Youtube to HTML5 so Flash isn’t required and videos can be natively seen through modern day browsers (everything but old versions of Internet Explorer).

Sometimes bad guys use other types of shocking news aside from pornography, using famous celebrities as as a motivator.
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