what to dooo?

[morbidmonkey]

I got this stupid virus thing from facebook and it messed up my account and started to randomly talk to everybody on my friends list and sent them this link where I got the virus. Now every time I try to login to facebook it says "Sorry, we're experiences temporary technical difficulties" and its driving me nuts! Somebody please tell me what to do cuz I obviously am lost.

[PerpetualImperfexion]

Perhaps you should contact facebook? I'm sure they've heard about this and are working on a patch already.

[TheMatrix]

Try another computer?

[PerpetualImperfexion]

or browser?

[Unlucky_Leprechaun]

Make sure your computer is clean of any and all viruses...Change your facebook password and try to log back in... if not I am sure the Security Team disabled your account. Please follow this link for support: https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=420

[DoctorWho]

It seem like a trojan viruse but could be different

[DerBear]

have you tryed a system restore it got rid of a virus i once had related to facebook

[morbidmonkey]

its not a trojan its a backdoor or something. i had a trojan before and this never happened. I'm still working on it but for now i just use a different computer

[Travis Is Losing It]

Ella its not a virus on your computer. You got phished by one of those scams on facebook to annoy people. Simply change your password and it will stop :) most likely it didn't infect your computer just stole your password through your browser. I'd suggest changing any passwords that may have any form of credit card attached to it also. Run a virus scan just to be sure though.

[morbidmonkey]

Yeah it stopped messing with my account but it still just randomly restarts my computer.

[DerBear]

I would suggest you run a deep layer anti virus scan and i mean have it run through everything because i think that would be best and use a good program not just the run of the mill free download of the net

p.s trojans come in all shapes and sizes and can do diffrent things depending on the way the virus has been prgrammed

[TheMatrix]

Our old Windows machine would restart randomly sometimes as well. It's not a virus, well, it's unlikely that it would be.
I suspect it's a problem with machine overload - how old is the laptop?

[morbidmonkey]

um about.... 10 months, give or take a few

[TheMatrix]

um about.... 10 months, give or take a few
Mhmmmm...odd....
I'm sorry, I can't think of anything right now. Try what the others have said, maybe that'll work....

[Travis Is Losing It]

It may be overheating. My computer use to do it because the fan broke and it would just turn off and ide be like WTF?!?!

[MattVon]

Yeah it stopped messing with my account but it still just randomly restarts my computer.
Random resets can be caused by overheating but, overheating usually causes the system to shutdown not restart. The best possible solution to do is to scan the computer thoroughly in Safe Mode to assure you have no malicious applications that may be causing this issue. I recommend Malwarebytes and ESET NoD32 for scanning purposes. You can get a free and legal copy of ESET via their US website, Malwarebytes is free which you can get.

If you do through this this, make sure both applications are installed and are up-to-date before you commence Safe Mode and scanning. Safe Mode can be accessed by restarting your machine and just constantly press the F8 key until you are presented with a menu; if you see the Windows Logo screen you missed it, also the key pressed can vary but it is commonly the F8 key.

Once in Safe Mode, I'd run one at a time; unless you have a system that can happily scan multiple scanners simultaneously. If the system happens to restart/shutdown during this process than it's clear their may be a possible hardware fault OR you have a wonderful virus/trojan/malware on your computer embedded in your OS. (I'd say 1st one; unless ESET picks up on it).