I got this e-mail today from our tech guy
With the news that the president will not release photos of a dead Osama bin Laden, please, please do not go looking for such photos on the Web and on Facebook that purport or promise to show you what the White House will not. You could get bitten big-time by rogue software that could take down your computer. It has been happening since the news Sunday of bin Laden's death, and the FBI even issued a warning Tuesday about it.
Some people could give a whit if they see such photos, but many want to see pictures or video of the dead terrorist, be it out of morbid curiosity, wanting to mark history or just to have the satisfaction of such a first-hand observance.
Right now — and for days and weeks to come — the best thing you can do to protect your own Internet safety is to not click on any links anywhere trying to lure you to do so when it comes bin Laden's death.
We shared an example yesterday of Facebook malware being passed around, and there's more where that came from. ESET, which makes anti-virus software, notes it's seeing "a similar upsurge on Facebook." And it's "easy to see why," writes Aryeh Goretsky, ESET North America distinguished researcher, on that company's blog Wednesday:
It’s easy to see why: With over five hundred million active users, Facebook would rank between India and the United States as the third-most populated country in the world, if it happened to be a country. For criminals, having so many computers and their users interacting through one single web site (albeit a very large and distributed one) must instill the same feelings a compulsive gambler has when winning a jackpot, only magnified accordingly.
... Criminals are using social engineering to bypass Facebook’s own security measures against malicious JavaScript code by tricking people into copying and pasting the it directly into their web browser’s address bars and then running the code.
