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Know the Ways for Face Book Virus Removal - By: James Langer

All those who get tempted with name of social networking, get tempted with name of Face Book too. This is the number social networking site which is not only uninterruptedly connecting people socially but also professionally. But, now you would have to be bit cautious while accessing your Face Book account.

However, increased popularity of Face book brought major benefits for us; it came wrapped with few negative aspects too. Face book viruses are example of such negative aspects. These viruses intend to steal your Face book details. Some face book viruses are too dangerous. They automatically install Trojans on your PC which can eat up entire memory of your system. Sometimes, these Trojans become reason for sudden PC crash too.

How to Identify Face Book Viruses

When a user tries to log in to his/her Face Book Account, he/she receives many requests asking to 'change password.' But in fact, Face Book never asks to change your password until unless you don’t want the same. These requests to change passwords are not genuine requests; instead they are fraud questions which are intended to track your entire face book details. This can also be a spying activity which can leak your profile details to unwanted individuals.

Some of the Face Book viruses are also spread through Face book messages. The virus, which targets users of this social networking site, compose spam messages and send it to different users. These messages aim to install Trojan Software on your PC. When someone opens such messages, these Trojans get installed on his/her PC and start functioning and accomplishing tasks for which it is created. These spam messages include link which redirects the user to numbers of anonymous websites which are actually spoofing sites.

Since, awareness regarding Face book Viruses is very low in present scenario, you should be more cautious while working on it. If you have all ready suffered from such virus attack, here are few tips which would help you in virus removal.

STEP 1: search and terminate the following processes:
fbtre6.exe
mstre6.exe

STEP 2: Go to Registry and delete the registry values which are mentioned below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrent VersionRunsystray = c:windowsmstre6.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrent VersionRunsystray = C:Windowsfbtre6.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsSchemesAppsExplorerNavigating

STEP 3: After deleting the registry entries, delete these files:
C:\Windows\fbtre6.exe
C:\Windows\fmark2.dat

About the Author

James Langer is an Expert adviser for Online Technical Support Service. He is able to share support related to virus removal, XP support, window 7 support, computer optimization, software support, browser support and many more.

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