Second rogue Facebook app spams ‘friends’
“Scoundrels have created another rogue Facebook application, the second to hit the social networking site in less than a week.
In the second attack, Facebook users receive notices that they have supposedly being reported for violation of the social networking site’s terms of service by someone in their friends list. A link on the notification leads to an application called “f a c e b o o k – – closing down!!!” which, post installation, spams all the affected user’s friends with the same message…”
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* Thanks to Lee at Technibble
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Is facebook still a good place to be on, or is it a dangerous place
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John,
Both.
To be safe(r) on Facebook, you must apply the same common sense paranoia you practice anyplace else on the Internet–
* Don’t give out personal information that can be used in fraud
* Don’t install any old neat-looking program(“widget”)
* Don’t reply to unsolicited messages
* etc…
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