Virus hits Facebook, MySpace with bogus emails

LuAnn LaSalle THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL–A virus has been infecting popular social networking sites MySpace and Facebook, tech experts said today. On Facebook, the virus is causing email messages to be sent to people on "friends" lists asking them to watch a video supposedly on YouTube. A user has to download what purports to be a plug-in to watch the video. Tech expert Marc Saltzman said the plug-in is actually a virus. "Even when you go to the fake site, it has their name and profile picture right on the site, so you really believe it," said Saltzman, a syndicated tech columnist who received several of these emails a few days ago. "It's affecting what is, arguably, the most popular service among Canadian Web surfers. To the best of my knowledge, we haven't really seen a Facebook virus of this magnitude yet," he said.... [read full story]