24-11-2010, 10:06 PM
Facebook and Malware, best buddys
Facebook. The perfect hunting ground for infecting noobs.
20%, that's 1 in 5 users are exposed to malware, malware that is contained in Facebook news feeds.
BitDefender, (where this info is from), have claimed that they have detected infections in 20% of the news feeds, this puts users at risk as they click through new posts and such. BitDefender received their figures by analysing data from 14,000 Facebook users that had installed a security app, called safego, it makes for the social network site. In the month that Safego has been launched it's analysed 17 million users.
The majority of infections were associated with apps written by independent developers, which promised enticements and rewards to trick users into installing the malware.
User sees a nice app, or a cheat to gain more farmvill cash and they're all game. They get infected, they become a number, just a number on a bot masters list.
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Facebook. The perfect hunting ground for infecting noobs.
20%, that's 1 in 5 users are exposed to malware, malware that is contained in Facebook news feeds.
BitDefender, (where this info is from), have claimed that they have detected infections in 20% of the news feeds, this puts users at risk as they click through new posts and such. BitDefender received their figures by analysing data from 14,000 Facebook users that had installed a security app, called safego, it makes for the social network site. In the month that Safego has been launched it's analysed 17 million users.
The majority of infections were associated with apps written by independent developers, which promised enticements and rewards to trick users into installing the malware.
User sees a nice app, or a cheat to gain more farmvill cash and they're all game. They get infected, they become a number, just a number on a bot masters list.