{"id":72398,"date":"2011-11-03T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72398"},"modified":"2011-11-03T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T13:09:08","slug":"new-facebook-your-account-has-been-blocked-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/new-facebook-your-account-has-been-blocked-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"New Facebook &#8220;Your account has been blocked!&#8221; scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Facebook spam pretending that the viewers account has been blocked is currently circulating on the Internet. The subject is:<br \/>\n&#8220;Facebook Service# Your account has been blocked! Order\/8236&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The email comes with an attachment called &#8216;New_Password_FB_1148.zip&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/fc1.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The zip file contains an executable file &#8216;New_Password.exe&#8217;, which tries to fool the victim by posing as a Microsoft Word document. You should never trust a file by its icon so always pay attention to the file extension instead. Also make sure that Windows Explorer is set to show file extensions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/fc2.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"124\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Upon execution this file infects the computer and successfully installs a rogueware known as <strong>System Restore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you come across such an email do not open the attachment. Instead, delete the email and keep your antivirus updated. Quick Heal detects the malicious attached file as <strong>Trojan.Menti.iohe<\/strong> so our users are already protected.<br \/>\nWe recommend that users do not open such attachments from any unknown emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Facebook spam pretending that the viewers account has been blocked is currently circulating on the Internet. The subject is: &#8220;Facebook Service# Your account has been blocked! Order\/8236&#8221;. The email comes with an attachment called &#8216;New_Password_FB_1148.zip&#8217;. The zip file contains an executable file &#8216;New_Password.exe&#8217;, which tries to fool the victim by posing as a Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,41,24],"tags":[22,42,23,91,26,29,40],"class_list":["post-72398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-facebook","category-malware","tag-email-malware","tag-facebook-scam","tag-fraudulent-email","tag-password","tag-rogueware","tag-social-engineering","tag-trojan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}