BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – ARE you a constant Facebook user? If yes, then you would have one time or the other come across an alert which says “click to view sex tape of Rihanna and Chris Brown” or “Celebrity exposed – see Nicki Minaj in a sex tape”. These are all Trojan viruses.
Yes, many of you can confess that you at one time click to view that hoaxed video but was then fooled by a blank screen or for some the computer just froze. This is considered a Trojan virus which can damage your PC, Smartphone or Laptop.
These viruses are very serious! Picture yourself one day in the city and someone walks up to you and say: “Why did you send me that message about being my friend? I don’t know you.” Of course, you have no idea, but it was actually the work of hackers through your account.
According Yuo Xian, a computer whizz from Japan, he told many of his subscribers on YouTube to cease from clicking on the links which were said to have been set up by a global group of computer hackers.
“It’s very simple, one click, and if you’re not fast enough to close it down they can get into your account and use it for other schemes which can land you in trouble and you have no idea what happened,” Xian said.
The whizz added that one of the other schemes that might be linked to sex video hoax is messages coming from anonymous persons who request to be “your very best friend”, but then ask to talk at another email.
“The thing is that when you get these messages, 98% of the times these users are not the actually people sending the messages, and they soon become targets of vicious and sometimes deadly threats,” Xian noted.
The man further stated that the hoax, which started about a month ago, has spread into a global threat to the popular social network which has since been working overtime to eradicate the threat that got into the system.
“You might be asking how will I know if my account has been hacked. It’s simple, you might have clicked the link in curiosity but then it asks you to share it, or sometimes clicking it you automatically share it; if it appears on your wall, there is a 90% chance your account has been hacked,” Xian explained.
Xian advised his many users to desist from clicking the link and for those who have already clicked it to change their passwords and modify their security settings.
