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We have been digging around the Internet to try and find out if the Facebook Fan Check is actually a Virus or not: It would seem, at the minute that this is nothing more than a Hoax or what the Industry Experts prefer to call Social Engineering!
ReplyDeleteHere's how it works: The message is spread around the social network, in this case Facebook that a certain application contains or is a Virus: Everyone then goes to Google and starts performing searches for that particular Key Phrase: In this case "Facebook Fan Check Virus"
The search results then generally lead to websites than contain either some kind of Virus or Malware: This is how a users computer then gets infected:
This kind of Engineering shows the true power of how the Best Social Networks can cause some serious problems for their users: As you can see, it's not so much the original application that causes the end user the problem but more the Viral Power of Social Network Information Sharing.
Take this Example:
10 users post a message about the Virus: The message is read by another 10 users who then follow suit and post the message to their friends and so on and so on:
It's a little like how a normal Virus such as the Swine Flu spreads: Before you know it, that one small snowball becomes an avalanche and panic is created:
Here's how to Remove the Facebook Fan Check Application:
ReplyDelete1) Log into Facebook:
2) Go to Settings and Hover over the Text until it Drops the List:
3) Go to Applications:
4) Find "Fan Check" and Click the "X" Next to it on the gight to remove.
That should do it! Once you have done this change your Facebook Password:
1) Go to Settings:
2) Go to Account Settings:
3) Find "Password" and Change.
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