Slashkey, the developers behind FarmTown, is actively alerting users to a new virus going around thanks to rogue advertising being displayed within the game. The advertising tells users to beware of a new virus on their computer and once clicked, they are infected with malware even though there was no virus installed on their computer to begin with. Below is a copy of the alert being sent to users.

According to Sophos, Slashkey has posted the following alert within their forums:

If you suddenly get a warning that your computer is infected with viruses and you MUST run this scan now, DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK, CLOSE THE WINDOW IMMEDIATELY. You should then run a full scan with your antivirus program to ensure that any stray parts of this malware are caught and quarantined.

If you do research on many of these spyware programs you will also find a myriad of sites proclaiming they are the only ones who can rid you of these programs. This is not true and on a personal level I urge you to use great caution as some of these so called wonder cures are as much of a scam as the malware you are trying to remove.

Apparently hundreds of users have already been affected but the company is now alerted to the problem and should be filtering out these advertisements. This isn’t exactly a new tactic, as other sites have had similar problems in the past, however FarmTown users have been consistently falling for this scam over the past few days.

I’m not quite sure why Slashkey is having developers simply report the problem, however I’m sure the issue will be resolved in short order. Have you seen any of these “virus alert” advertisement scams? Are you the victim of one?

This blog is taken from allfacebook.com By Nick O’Neill