Sophos warned Facebook clients against clicking on the thumbnail, which does not play the video but takes users to a page telling them they do not have the correct software installed.

SINGAPORE (AFP) – A computer security company on Tuesday warned Facebook users against clicking on a link claiming to be the “sexiest video ever” which is actually a trap designed to infect computers.

The firm, Sophos, said that thousands of users have been hit by the malicious post, which appears to come from a friend’s Facebook account.

The posting reads: “This is without doubt the sexiest video ever!” and is accompanied by what seems to be a movie thumbnail of a woman wearing a short skirt on an exercise bike.

Sophos warned Facebook clients against clicking on the thumbnail, which does not play the video but takes users to a page telling them they do not have the correct software installed.

It then tricks users into installing adware, a software package that automatically plays, displays or downloads advertisements to their computer.

“You may want to watch a sexy video, but you’re more likely to end up being plagued by pop-up advertising,” said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos.

“Not only is adware being installed in your computer, but the rogue Facebook application is posting the same message to all of your friends’ accounts,” he said.

“It’s no surprise that your friends might click to watch the movie when it looks to all intents and purposes that you are the person who has sent it to them.”

Cluley advised those who had been affected by this attack to scan their computers with anti-virus software, change their passwords, review their Facebook application settings and remove whatever was installed.

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New computer build, one hour. Getting the front audio port to work, endless. I spent several hours of checking and fidling with audio settings on Windows 7 to get the front audio port to work. Nothing seemed to work.

I installed the Realtek audio manager and could get the front audio port to work. But then the back audio ports stopped working all together. No matter what settings I had set, they would not work in conjuction.  Here is how I got it working and things to check:

• Double check that the audio connecter is properly seated on the motherboard and that it’s on the right input port on the motherboard. (see you motherboard instructions)
• Download the Realtek audio manager and click the folder in the upper right hand corner as seen in the image. Then check or uncheck the “disable front panel jack detection”
• update your BIOS

My front port audio only started working properly after updating the BIOS. This seems a little extreme but it’s the only thing left I could think of. After updating the Gigabyte via @bios, the widnows based BIOS flash, it started working properly.  Thanks Gigabyter for the easy BIOS flash!

According to Mozilla, version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader is infected with password sniffer Win32.LdPinch.gen and Master Filer is infected with the backdoor Trojan Win32.Bifrose. This Malware has infected Windows systems following installation of the infected browser add-on.

This comes at no surprise as a recent study indicated that nearly half of all computers are infected with some sort of virus or spyware. 2009 was a record year in the amount of attacks on residential and business class computers.

• Check speakers are not blown out, do they make noise at all? if so does it sound very scratchy and distorted? If so replace the speakers.
• Is speaker cable connected, located directly under power button bezel (only attempt removal if you have done this type of repair before)
• Check hardware devices and see if sound card is installed? If not, verify that “view hidden devices is checked”  then try reinstalling the software directly from the HP support website.
• finally if nothing else works you can replace sound card with a express card sound card. Determine which type of express slot you have open and install an external sound card.

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Removing a virus like these becomes difficult when you can’t even install a single tool to try and remove the threat. Unfortunately the customer now has to pay twice as much because I have to remove the product she installed and the anti-virus 2010.

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