There are currently over 550,000 active applications on Facebook at the moment. Many of them offer excellent entertainment and develop a great community amongst users. But for each useful and fun application there are at least a dozen suspect ones.
The latest to do the rounds is the now infamous 'Sexiest Video Ever'. AVG antivirus received over 300,000 reports of the malicious Facebook App according to their chief research officer, Richard Thompson. Facebooks only response to this was "Tip of the Week" which read "Don't click on suspicious-looking links, even if they've been sent or posted by friends." Clicking on the link brought users to an application installation screen where the were asked to allow an application to view their profiles. The application was supposedly an update to the legitimate FLV player, but was infact adware called Hotbar, which integrates itself into Internet explorer, then starts displaying pop-up ads and suspect links.
This morning another threat raised its ugly head in the form of 'Distracting Beach Babes'. If you click on this it will download and install Malware on your computer. If you see it on your wall delete it. If you have clicked on it, make sure you run a virus scan with an updated Anti-Virus.
These latest threats have all come in the space of a few days. This brings serious questions about the security of apps on Facebook. The best advice is to be vigilant about what you click on, install as few apps as possible and ignore as many quizzes as possible.
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