How to remove Facebook Message Virus

Easy methods to delete Facebook Message Virus from PCs (Remove Trojan horse virus)

Cyber security researchers have discovered Facebook Message Virus and explained that it is very notorious malware and computer infection that is belongs to Trojan horse virus family. This virus is designed to hijack your Facebook accounts and proliferate virus via private messages. It targets Facebook users by injecting malicious codes to hijack their accounts and send various links to all contacts. For more details, you can read this article carefully. Let’s starts the discussion.

What is Facebook Message Virus?

Facebook Message Virus is categorized as Trojan horse virus that spreads malicious scripts to hijack Facebook accounts and infect all the contacts of such accounts via sending malicious links. In simple word, we can say that this virus is capable of hijacking you Facebook accounts as well as your all contacts/friends on Facebook via suspicious links. These links appears legitimate since attackers also insert text and emojis to make the messages more believable and friendly. On other hand, these suspicious links redirects you on malicious website that executes several unwanted programs in your computer in order to click on such links.

Cybercriminals are behind Facebook Message Virus attack attempts to engage you on scam website by offer “fantastic deals”, and tricks you into providing your personal details to them. However, cybercriminals employ these sites only to extrovert money from you or other suspecting users or steal confidential information as well. “Ryanair Scam” is one of the most popular Facebook Message Virus released in 2016. User receive a message stating that Ryanair Airline is celebrating its 35th birthday and users can win or have won the tickets for two free flights. But it was at all. Security researchers have acknowledge that this bogus offer was belongs to scam/phishing category.

Threat Analysis

Name: Facebook Message Virus

Type: Trojan horse virus, backdoor virus, spyware, malware

System infected: Windows OS based machine

Description: This nasty Trojan horse virus is designed to stealthily infiltrate your computer and starts infecting your PCs deeply. It blocks all the security applications running in your computer and avoids the detections of this infection. It attempts to access each location of your System and injects its malicious codes on such locations.

Distribution methods: Malicious email messages, infected email attachments, malicious online advertisements, social engineering, bundling of free software packages and many other tricks

Motives of crooks: The main purpose of cybercriminals malware attack is to steal your crucial & confidential information and shares it to other hackers or third parties to generate some income. They also want to steal your money from your wallet or e-wallet.

Removal Solution: To remove Facebook Message Virus or similar infection, we recommended you to scan your computer with strong antivirus software.

What Facebook Message Virus does?

As discussed above, Facebook Message Virus is very dangerous malware creation of cybercriminals who wants to gain illegal online profit and cheat with innocent users. They never do any mercy with you. It attempts to install harmful Trojan in your machine via Facebook social network. It sends suspicious links to Facebook as private message that can infect other Facebook users in order deliver these links to them. Its main aim is to collect your some information such as IP address, URLs search, login ID & password of various accounts, banking information and more details as well. However, they can share these collected details to other hackers or third parties to generate some income from them.

How your System gets infected from Facebook Message Virus?

This nasty malware is generally enters into your machine via private messages or descriptive Facebook posts. Scammers or cybercriminals send certain links on Facebook posts or private message and asks you to click on such links to get fantastic offers deal, In order to click on such suspicious hyperlinks or links, attacks install malicious unwanted programs in your computer and makes your System useless. So, you should be alert while surfing online and hover your mouse over any hyperlinks before click, and please check the hyperlinks are belongs to some trustworthy domains or sources.

Precautionary measures:

• Keep up-to-date your operating System like Windows, Mac, Linux and other OS
• Scan the PC with powerful antivirus software in regular time intervals
• Remove all the faculty software and update rest of the software running in your machine
• You should be alert while surfing online and avoid opening attachments coming from unknown emails, avoid installing freeware from unknown sources and click on ads or popup after double reading.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Facebook Message Virus:

Remove the related items of Facebook Message Virus using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Facebook Message Virus issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Facebook Message Virus) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Facebook Message Virus removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter. In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Facebook Message Virus still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Facebook Message Virus plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”. Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Facebook Message Virus removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Facebook Message Virus (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications. Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.