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Re:Malware That Drains Your Bank Account Thriving On Facebook by orthecreedence on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @07:44PM (#5822809)
They didn't really specify how this is being spread. If I have flashblock and a modern browser, I'm assuming it's pretty hard for a site to randomly install junk on my machine. Are people on Facebook downloading exe files or something?
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Re:Malware That Drains Your Bank Account Thriving On Facebook by DanBC on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @07:50PM (#5822837)
People on Facebook are visiting links, posted on Facebook, to external sites.

Those external sites are the sites with the malware.

Very few people block anything; people don't bother blocking flash or javascript or even ads. (Adblock Plus, the most popular ad blocker, only has 15.5million users on Firefox.)

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