Early in the afternoon of May 12 in the Philippines, untold scores of Facebook users found the following message posted on their walls, apparently from people on their Friends lists:
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"F**k you f****t. Go kill yourself. Vote for Nicole Santos. I hate you and the only way to remove all these posts is by disabling this below."
At the bottom of the post was a button marked, "==VERIFY MY ACCOUNT=="
Unbeknownst to victims, clicking the button allowed a virus —now informally known as the "Nicole Santos Facebook Virus"— to access their Facebook accounts and redistribute itself and the message to other accounts.
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