Facebook Fan Check Virus scare leads to malware.

[JMH]

Graham Cluley’s blog.

Beware of Googling (or indeed Yahooing or Binging or using any other internet search engine) for information about something called "Facebook Fan Check Virus", as you're likely to end up on a website hosting malicious code.

The phrase "Facebook Fan Check Virus" is currently a hot trending topic on Google, with many net users searching for information.
However, hackers have set up websites pretending to be about the "Facebook Fan Check Virus", but which really host fake anti-virus software which display bogus warnings about the security of your computer in an attempt to get you to install fraudulent software and cough-up your credit card details.

Read more -
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/09/07/facebook-fan-check-virus-scare-leads-malware

 

[DC187]

I saw an article on Digg about this a few days ago.

The Fan Check application is fine, nothing wrong with it by the way.

The whole thing is a scare tactic so people go off and perform the above.

Just think, if a facebook app was really malicious and so many people were infected and aware of the issue, do you not think the people at Facebook would remove the app!?

Peace.