Facebook Child Porn Virus

Various infections related to Facebook pop up every now and then, and almost all of them present themselves as Facebook Child Porn Virus. This infection appears on your timeline as a spam message from people you are friends with. It contains an outgoing link, and if you click it, you will be redirected to a graphic child pornography video. It is obvious that your own friends do not post this link – their account simply gets hacked by Facebook Child Porn Virus and the links are posted automatically. You cannot remove Facebook Child Porn Virus yourself from Facebook, but you can avoid it by not clicking the link.

Where you to click the link, your account would be hacked as well, and then it would automatically spam all of your friends with the same malicious link. Needless to say, that Facebook itself has strict rules against child pornography and it does all it can to stop this video from being spread further on.

Based on police investigation, Facebook Child Porn Virus was first spread in Connecticut, when a few school students got their hands on the video and spread it around. In this case, the most problematic thing is not the fact that your account gets hacked, but the video itself. According to various news articles, even the FBI go involved in this investigation, as child pornography propagation is punishable by law.

Once again, if you saw a link distributed by Facebook Child Porn Virus on your timeline, DO NOT click it, because your account will be hacked as well. Inform your friend that his/her account got exploited and then carry on changing your Facebook password (just in case). You can also try reporting the problem to Facebook via Help service, as the social network seems to be very eager to intercept all the dangerous links as soon as possible.

It would also be a good idea to invest in a reliable computer security application that would protect your system from dangerous threats. You can run a full system scan with SpyHunter free scanner right now, to check whether you have any potentially unwanted programs on board. Who knows, perhaps you are just a click away from a really serious problem.