Remove Facebook video virus from PC

Simple steps to delete Facebook video virus frequently

Facebook video virus is defined as malicious social media campaigns that are used by cyber criminals in order to fetch personal details. It is text message that display on your social media applications and claims to have information related to victim. This campaign is related to facebook virus and cannot be implemented without fake messages that contain videos and other content or even direct links and file attachments.

Text presented within this website:

Facebook Account Confirmation

Dear user,

Your Facebook account must be confirmed today in order to avoid disabling! This process is quick and must be done by all of our users as an extra security measure. If you fail to confirm your account today it will be limited and then disabled!

Facebook video virus is a term used to describe a wide group of cyber infections spreading across all over the world’s largest social network. Typically, these viruses are proliferated using random user accounts. Cyber criminals behind this design malicious scripts to hijack Facebook accounts and send various links to all contacts. In most cases, these links appear legitimate and useful. After clicking on such links, user’s friends often visit malicious websites or execute other scripts that infect their system.

Facebook video virus main aims is to get victims to visit the malicious pages, reveal information regarding their email or social media accounts or even install anything. Cyber criminals come up with various scam methods and designed to obtain valuable details about the user. Unsuspecting users often get tricked and provide information which might put their privacy at huge risk. Remember that behavior of such viruses is not identical.

Another popular Facebook video virus called “Ray Ban Scam”. Hackers proliferate private messages with malicious links that promote dubious websites that supposedly sell Ray Ban eye-wear at very low prices. However, after paying money users will receive nothing and lose their money. This malware also hijacked accounts to promote these sites that creates events, chat groups, tags victims friend and so on. In case of such infection, you must instantly check your account passwords and cancel all payments or transactions.

How did Facebook video virus infiltrate?

As we discussed earlier that Facebook video virus often get distributed through private messages or dubious Facebook posts. Usually, it contains link to malicious websites or harmful scripts. Many users got tricked and click on such links especially when they are sent or posted by close friends. Clicking on links posted by such viruses put their system at a risk of various infections and put their device in danger. To protect your social media accounts from malware attack, users are advised to stay away from misleading advertisements and news feed provided on the platform.

Remove Facebook video virus

Complete removal instructions related to Facebook video virus has been prescribed below. Go through it so that you will not find any trouble while performing virus removal process. You can also use Spyhunter an automatic malware removal tool that has the capability to eliminate all infiltrated malware automatically from the system.

Threat summary

Name: Facebook video virus

Type: Trojan, Password stealing virus, Phishing malware, Spyware

Short Description: The Facebook video virus is a recent example of the scam tactic that coerces the users into falling victim to a dangerous virus infection.

Symptoms: Trojans are designed to stealthily infiltrate victim’s computer and remain silent thus no particular symptoms are clearly visible on an infected machine.

Distribution methods: Infected email attachments, malicious online advertisements, malicious ads, torrent file downloads, social engineering, software cracks.

Damage: Stolen banking information, passwords, identity theft, victim’s computer added to a botnet.

Removal: Use Spyhunter to eliminate infiltrated malware automatically from the system.

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 video virus:

Remove the related items of Facebook video 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 video 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 video 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 video 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 video 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 video 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 video 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 video 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.