# Who Wrote The "KOOBFACE" Virus?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wrote-the-koobface-virus/734757>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 15, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wrote-the-koobface-virus/734757 "2015-10-15T21:51:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wrote-the-koobface-virus/734757/1 "2015-10-15T21:51:37Z")

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This dastardly piece of work corrupts your email account and allows hacking of all linked information. is it transmitted via Facebook? I had a terrible time getting rid of it.  
Another question: does Advira detect it? i never had any warning of it.

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**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wrote-the-koobface-virus/734757/2 "2015-10-15T22:00:10Z")

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Koobface is quite an old thing, here’s the gory details about its history and who was responsible:

> **[The Koobface malware gang – exposed!](https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/koobface/)**
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> Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next → An investigation by Jan Drömer, independent researcher, and Dirk Kollberg, SophosLabs. On 17 January 2012, The New York Times revealed that Facebook plans to name five me…

Were you infected by this recently, ralph?

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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wrote-the-koobface-virus/734757/3 "2015-10-15T22:05:50Z")

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Just last week.

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wrote-the-koobface-virus/734757/4 "2015-10-16T10:27:22Z")

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