The latest threat to users involves a fake Flash Player update which pops up during a preview of a pornographic video.
Once you click on the link to update your video player, malware (the name given to malicious software), downloads onto your computer.
This Trojan horse software gives the creator of the malware remote access to your computer.
They can then download viruses onto your computer.
Security researcher Mohammad Faghani alerted users to the threat in a post on the Full Disclosure blog, which flags up network vulnerabilities.
"The Trojan tags the infected user's friends with an enticing post," he explained.
Faghani warned that the malware then tags up to 20 friends of the victim in the malicious post, thus leading to a larger number of those who could be affected
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