Facebook and Hijackers

[iowabucks]

Hey everyone, i have a friend on Facebook that seems to have some type of Hijacker take over. It seems to be posting links to many other friends pages without her knowledge. It always goes something like "(the link) helped me knock out 8lbs in 8 days". I have seen many others all through Facebook like "I won a free Ipod, here is how i did it. (link)".

First off i know Facebook can also be a rather risky site as i have read of different viruses being spread on it. I know better than to click on links that are strange or sound too good to be true. I stay away from Farmville and all the other games and apps that need access to your information to be able to run.

I would like to learn a little bit about what this might be and how to get rid of it so that i may be able to direct her on what to do.

I'm guessing there may have been some talk about things like these on this forum but my searches all bring up non relevant information. Anybody know much about this?

Thanks, Jerry.

[little eagle]

Sound like it might be a drive by hacker.

Face book has had a lot of hacks at there site.

Lets see what we find, download ATF Cleaner by Atribune.
Download - ATF Cleaner»
Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program.
Under Main choose: Select All

Click the Empty Selected button.

(If you use FireFox or the Opera browser
To keep saved passwords, click No at the prompt.)

It's normal after running ATF cleaner that the PC will be slower to boot the first time or two.

Next:

Then download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to your desktop.

• Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
• At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, then click Finish.
• If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.
• Once the program has loaded, select Perform quick scan, then click Scan.
  
• When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
• 
• Then click Remove Selected .
• When completed, a log will open in Notepad. Please save it to a convenient location and post the results.
• Note: If you receive a notice that some of the items couldn't be removed, that they have been added to the delete on reboot list, please reboot.