Virus through Facebook?

[jtwhite]

I find it hilarious that people claim to have acquired viruses by merely using Facebook and not downloading / executing files on their system. I personally do not believe it's possible.

Can a file maliciously be downloaded and executed from Facebook.com without your knowledge and infect your system? I think not.

Prove me wrong please? I'd like to actually see some factual evidence proving that you can, in fact, acquire a virus by merely browsing the internet and not downloading any executable file and running it.

[fukufuji]

I'm not an expert but I think the virus fear is a little overblown. The only virus I ever got from surfing the net was when I was totally careless and executed an application I thought was going to be something I wanted when in fact it was a virus in disguise. I wiped my computer and it was gone. I don't think viruses are put on the computer without allowing them to get there by executing a function.

[jtwhite]

I'm not an expert but I think the virus fear is a little overblown. The only virus I ever got from surfing the net was when I was totally careless and executed an application I thought was going to be something I wanted when in fact it was a virus in disguise. I wiped my computer and it was gone. I don't think viruses are put on the computer without allowing them to get there by executing a function.

Yes, I completely agree with you.

[Brandon]

Has happened to me before through MySpace. Malicious cookies.

[jtwhite]

I don't understand how that's possible. Did a virus actually download to your computer and install itself?

[Brandon]

No the cookie contained the code which affecting the browser, once it can do that it can background install things.

[Danielx386]

Correct, it can happen with face-book, just by the use of badly written cookies. Infact, it can happen on any website.

[galaxyAbstractor]

I find it hilarious that people claim to have acquired viruses by merely using Facebook and not downloading / executing files on their system. I personally do not believe it's possible.

Can a file maliciously be downloaded and executed from Facebook.com without your knowledge and infect your system? I think not.

Prove me wrong please? I'd like to actually see some factual evidence proving that you can, in fact, acquire a virus by merely browsing the internet and not downloading any executable file and running it.

There is iFrame trojans, like HTML:IFrame-JR [Trj]. Avast! warns me about them time from time, and blocks the connection.

[kkenny]

Wow, it's such a dangerous internet nowadays.

[Sharky]

My AV has claimed to have protected me from flash ads on FB before...