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RavenkallenRavenkallen Posts: 1,057
edited 2011-04-15 07:57 in General Discussion
Just wanted to let you guys know that there is a facebook virus going around. It seems like a harmless application that checks for "stalkers" on your page, but it really is a virus that sends fake messages and deletes things. If you see anything like that DON'T OPEN IT!!

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  • MacTuxLinMacTuxLin Posts: 821
    edited 2011-04-11 23:34
    Yeah, you can label it as spam. :)
  • UnknownUnknown
    edited 2011-04-12 03:38
    I am using Malwarebytes against social blogging sites and I'm quite happy with it so far.

    If you have a backup drive that you can swap in your PC, they work because you can install Windows on a second hard drive. If you have an external case you can salvage your data. You don't need to pay someone to fix your computer.
  • localrogerlocalroger Posts: 3,452
    edited 2011-04-12 05:55
    I find the best defense against Facebook malware is not to use Facebook.
  • Paul Sr.Paul Sr. Posts: 435
    edited 2011-04-12 07:28
    localroger wrote: »
    I find the best defense against Facebook malware is not to use Facebook.

    Agree!!!!

    Facebook IS a virus!!!
  • Martin HodgeMartin Hodge Posts: 1,246
    edited 2011-04-12 09:53
    I find Facebook is unmatched in ease of connecting you to those people in your past whom you hate.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-04-12 10:41
    When I was a kid, we used smoke signals for social networking -- but not just any smoke signals. The popular kids all used smoke generated with SpaceLook Smoke Tablets (purchased by mail from comic book ads), which you could plop onto hot charcoal briquettes to provide billows of white (or blue or red) smoke. The nerdy kids even figured out ways to send pictures by modulating the smoke plume with fans. (A few of them got in trouble for the kinds of pictures they sent.)

    There were naysayers aplenty, though, mostly older folks: "Where's the privacy? Everybody can read the messages you're sending!" or "Who knows where those tablets come from. They could be toxic or contain a virus!" But that never phased us and, somehow, we survived. Then the CB fad hit, and suddenly smoke signals were yesterday's news.

    For the record, I don't do Facebook, although plenty of my contemporaries do. It's not an age thing -- really -- it's not! It's just that social networking involves being ... well ... social. :)

    -Phil
  • JasonDorieJasonDorie Posts: 1,930
    edited 2011-04-12 12:42
    It's worth mentioning that Facebook has publicly stated (numerous times) that they do not collect, do not make it possible to collect, and will never make it possible to collect, information about profile visitors. If you ever see an app claiming to show you who visits your page most, it's not legit.
  • Peter KG6LSEPeter KG6LSE Posts: 1,383
    edited 2011-04-12 13:49
    Paul Sr. wrote: »
    agree!!!!

    Facebook is a virus!!!


    amen !
  • $WMc%$WMc% Posts: 1,884
    edited 2011-04-12 17:36
    Ravenkallen wrote: »
    Just wanted to let you guys know that there is a facebook virus going around. It seems like a harmless application that checks for "stalkers" on your page, but it really is a virus that sends fake messages and deletes things. If you see anything like that DON'T OPEN IT!!
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  • RavenkallenRavenkallen Posts: 1,057
    edited 2011-04-12 18:31
    Yeah, it was kinda embarrassing. All my friends are wondering what was going on when they got spammed from my account...But besides that, i really do like Facebook:)


    @Phil.... I think you are social???:)
  • MacTuxLinMacTuxLin Posts: 821
    edited 2011-04-12 20:47
    Ravenkallen wrote: »
    ...But besides that, i really do like Facebook:)

    So does 37,498,246 people! FB did turned out very helpful for the Japanese in finding their loved ones & organizing NGOs etc.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2011-04-13 04:13
    Ravenkallen wrote: »
    ... i really do like Facebook...

    What's all the fuss about these social networking sites? The ants beat us to it.

    http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/ants-take-a-cue-from-facebook.html
  • homosapienhomosapien Posts: 147
    edited 2011-04-13 19:13
    What is this "facebook" thing you are all talking about?
  • RavenkallenRavenkallen Posts: 1,057
    edited 2011-04-13 19:34
    @Homosapien... For real?:)
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-04-13 19:59
    Hey Raven,

    How 'bout a new avatar! Ravin' Raven:

    CSGCR.jpg

    -Phil
  • homosapienhomosapien Posts: 147
    edited 2011-04-13 20:21
    @Homosapien... For real?

    No, but I am planning on being the last holdout.... kind of like the last guy in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978)
  • RavenkallenRavenkallen Posts: 1,057
    edited 2011-04-13 21:09
    Whoaaa!!! Phil.. I actually might have to now:) How did somebody manage to put shades on a raven!?!? AND take a picture of it without it flying off??
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2011-04-15 07:00
    Ravenkallen wrote: »
    How did somebody manage to put shades on a raven!?!? AND take a picture of it without it flying off??

    It was a one in a lifetime thing...Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2011-04-15 07:57
    homosapien, you can't be the last holdout because I'm planning to be the last holdout!
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