Sophos the renowned security company has alerted of one destructive virus that's disseminating via Facebook messages while compromising users' chat sessions so as for taking over their computers as well as contaminating them with certain Trojan that steals banking info.
The virus is "Dorkbot," said Sophos whose researchers identified it so. Also, it spreads through messages that the Facebook's real contacts dispatch; however, since the messages are dispatched through chat sessions, it implies that the virus simultaneously infects all computers connected in the loop.
A given web-link within any of these chat messages seemingly lead onto the real Facebook.com website; however, in case clicked, it diverts the user onto an intermediary website that triggers the scam for installing the virus on his system.
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