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Is “Facebook Fan Check” Virus harmful ?

  Tue, Sep 15 2009, 03:02

A Facebook application, titled “Facebook Fan Check,” has generated quite a frenzy on the website, prompting users to ask “Is it a virus?” But are the rumors true? What is “Facebook Fan Check” exactly? And is it harmful? These are some interesting reports about it: PC World reports that the real danger may be searching for a website that will remove this rumored virus: “Malicious hackers are setting up malware-infested Web sites that falsely claim to remove a virus from a new Facebook application called Fan Check, security vendor Sophos is warning…. [A]s Facebook members use popular search engines to find antivirus information about Fan Check, they are getting results that point to sites that can infect their computers with malwar,” Mr. Carlos writes. Though Sophos hasn’t yet confirmed if the Fan Check application is harmful by itself, company blogger Greg Cluley writes that “the fear about the application is leading Internet ... http://americanages.com/2009/gossips/i...

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