“Vietnam Rose” Porn Virus Spreading Among Indonesian Users of Facebook

Jakarta.coconuts.co published news in the last week of July 2015 quoting security experts as saying "malware (short for "malicious software" which can take control of particular operations of your PC) virus known as Vietnam Rose has been currently spreading via Facebook mainly among Indonesians."

Vietnam Rose is infecting users when they click on links camouflaged as pornographic images posted on FB. When users click on the photos, they are driven to a site which spontaneously downloads the malicious software onto their systems which then takes control on the user's FB account and posts additional pornographic links as many as 5 to 10 times per day through their accounts.

In spite of being called Vietnam Rose, majority of infected users are located in Indonesia apparently because the malicious software links were initially posted onto specific closed Indonesian FB debate groups where they could freely spread.

Actually, Vietnam Rose is just only the first such malware to strike Indonesian Facebook accounts as there was a matching malware trap hidden as Gadis Mabuk XXX (Drunk Girls XXX) which spread across Indonesian bends of the social networking site towards the concluding days of 2014.

Jakarta.coconuts.co published news during the last week of July 2015 quoting Alfons Tanujaya, an Antivirus Expert of Security Firm Vaksincom, as saying "Vietnam Rose is much more dangerous as compared to Drunk Girls and you could say that it is nine times more worse."

Security experts claim that unfortunately incidents like the above one have constantly defamed the image of Facebook.

It has been observed that Facebook is highly vulnerable because, firstly, the content of Facebook spreads like wildfire with limited number of employees working for Facebook resulting slow follow up.

Secondly, people have subconsciously started believing Facebook much more because of its popularity and due to the fact that it has been existing almost for the last ten years. This makes Facebook totally different than other websites existing on the large cloud of Internet; making it difficult for general people to understand the fact that websites linked to the network are hosted externally and that porn videos posted there are no less likely to carry malwares or viruses than those found away, as explained by experts.

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