facebook virus the message was only 'lol'

[taenbolle]

hi, just got message from a friend on Facebook that said : lol
that was the hole message.
i asked my sister wtf is this (beacuse its her clasmate) and she said it was fake and it was a virus and i should not click or reply to it.
i had already clicked on but not ryplied.
some other dude had also written on his status that it was a virus) so my question is that, is this a true or not??
if it is, what shall i do? i used windows phone 800 lumia

 

[coastie65]

hi, just got message from a friend on Facebook that said : lol
that was the hole message.
i asked my sister wtf is this (beacuse its her clasmate) and she said it was fake and it was a virus and i should not click or reply to it.
i had already clicked on but not ryplied.
some other dude had also written on his status that it was a virus) so my question is that, is this a true or not??
if it is, what shall i do? i used windows phone 800 lumia

haven't seen or heard of that. If I get something like that over there and it is not in relation to anything I have posted, it goes ignored. I just mark it as read and move on.

 

[i7Baby]

Google it. Don't use this forum for that sort of drivel

 

[lewisdc]

I usually get a few of these sort of messages every other month (In different forms of what they may say).

If it is a group conversation, leave the conversation than delete it from your archive.

If it was just a private message to you personally, then do the latter. It's easier to do this on the web page rather than on a phone app (I haven't tried to delete a conversation on the phone app).

There isn't really anything you can do other than just ignoring the messages, not clicking on any links they may send and delete/archive the chat.

 

[coastie65]

Google it. Don't use this forum for that sort of drivel

Not really drivel. A forum I moderated on ( PC World that just shut down ) had a discussion group for that sort of thing. We had some moderate traffic on that too. Granted, if you have a question about whether or nor something is malicious, then you can Google it. If you are not sure of what you are looking for, then a place such as this is a good option. There is a lot of stuff that goes on, on FB, but I have not heard of that.

 

[taenbolle]

thanks for all replies. when i logged on my Pc i saw there was a ZIP file which then was the malware.
thank you all!

 

[coastie65]

Teah. Probably wouldn't be caught until the file was unzipped.

 

[g-unit1111]

I'm locking this - it seems to be going nowhere.