How to find facebook 'IMAGE ALERT' virus

Facebook users are reportedly at risk from a new virus, which is spreading through emails posing as photo alerts from the social network. 

The emails have been reported to look exactly like Facebook’s own messages, which are sent to a user’s personal email accounts when they are tagged in a photo. 


After tagging images on Facebook if you get emails like Facebook’s own messages in your personal email accounts don’t reply or follow the sender’s instruction, for Facebook doesn’t send the email, it is a virus.


However, instead of the links in the emails leading to the referenced photo, they redirect the victim of the spam campaign to a site which tries to infect the person's computer with malicious software, and a few seconds later the link will redirect the user one more time to Facebook.com.



However, Facebook users can easily identify the virus when they receive the email as the word Facebook has been misspelled as ‘Faceboook’ there."Even if you didn't notice that 'Faceboook' was spelt incorrectly, you could have seen by hovering your mouse over the link that it wasn't going to take you directly to the genuine Facebook website," Cluley said

"Be wary of emails claiming to be from Facebook, and saying that you have been tagged in a photograph," The Telegraph quoted Graham Cluley of the British internet security firm Sophos, as warning.

"SophosLabs has intercepted a spammed-out email campaign, designed to infect recipients' computers with malware. If you click on the link in the email, you are not taken immediately to the real Facebook website," he added.