A couple of friends were phished into a link on Facebook and immediately spammed all their friends with a similar virus. Other than standard procedure (copied below), there’s no new info about this virus online that we can find.

Also… change your password.

(here’s info we pulled from Facebook’s site)

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Free Online Virus Scanners

If spam has been sent from your account, you should immediately run a virus scan using one of these sites:

• http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
• http://security.symantec.com
• http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/scan.asp?affid=56
• http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8
• http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm
• http://ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
• http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan
• http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan

Support for your Computer

If your Windows PC or Mac has been infected with malware or a virus, check out these helpful sites:

• http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

You may also want to check out OpenDNS. OpenDNS is a free security service that will help protect you from phishing scams on Facebook, and while browsing the Internet:

• https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/start/?src=fb

FAQs

If you want to know more about security and Facebook, check out their Help Center.

• I like that we have innovation, and a means to bring those innovations to market.
• I like knowing about these innovations and how I might actually like them.
• I like being profiled to some extent and only having to see ads that pertain to stuff I’m interested in. I don’t want to have to go look to see if there’s something new that might improve the quality of my life, making my short time here more enjoyable.
• I like it that advertisers seem to get it that I don’t want their ads in my face blocking my view, but rather off to the side, in-case I want to peek (sometimes I do…usually, I don’t see ads).
• I like it that advertisers seem to learn from their mistakes. I don’t mind mistakes and learning. I do it all them both all the time.
• I love how Social Media is giving volume to the Voice of the Customer (VOC).

I believe a nice blend of VOC and targeted traditional advertising is where we’ll wind-up.

Proximity Marketing
I long for the day when we slide our Treo/Blackberry type phones into their cradles in our vehicles. Aside from many countless other things it’ll do, I see the immediate payoff in connecting with:
- Our global position
- Our own preferences data
- Other consumers’ experience data (feedback)
- Voice recognition for hands-off device control
- Voice-to-Text
- Text-to-Voice
- Real-time drive-through-put monitoring
- Smart Marketers
(the “plus” version would have a heads-up display out of our line of sight)

This way before I sms (via voice) my order to Starbucks, I’ll be told through my car stereo that:
- three blocks ahead is a Peetes coffee with
- carrot cake special at $1.50 with only 25% calories from fat
- that I can add to my coffee that I normally get at Starbucks for the same price
- and that my expected wait time is 65 seconds if I say “yes” now.

The process we call a “drive thru” will actually be one, instead of a “wait thru”, “smog thru”, or “waste thru”. You’re either using the sms service or parking your car (“pal“).

Of course with all this advertising, my phone should be free, and I’m somehow charged for the coffee transaction without having to dig out cash or credit card.

It’ll happen. Now would be great! (and if my copy of Now is Gone would just get here, that’d be even greater!)