Facebook is one of the sites of greatest spread of viruses, of deception and, in general, where there are computer dangers in various forms, often even unexpected. Although the Facebook company employs the best IT engineers and security experts to make the social network less vulnerable, they are often overcome by the ingenuity of hackers, those who make spam and those who use Facebook to earn a lot of money.
In severe cases then, if a person is infected with a virus on Facebook he can lose control of the profile and spread the virus or dangerous link to all his friends.
In this article we see what are the 5 most dangerous (known) attacks on Facebook that can be viruses, spam links, requests to "Like" with deception and so on.
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1) Koobface is the best known of the Facebook viruses, which caused many victims in 2009 and which returns, in various forms, occasionally.
The virus is spread through videos that appear on the news flow, with irresistible headlines, which require you to install a Flash Player plugin behind which the virus is hidden.
Once installed, the cybercriminal who created the malware is given remote access to the computer and will be able to see all the victim's personal information.
To avoid this frightening prospect, you need to be especially careful about what you download from Facebook in particular, from the internet in general.
2) Zeus is a Russian virus that has been running for several years and is still very active today.
Just like Koobface, Zeus spreads relying on the fact that there are many naive people who click links disguised as fan pages, shares and even friends' profiles.
The malware remains dormant in the system until you log into your bank account and then make a copy of your username and password and send it to its creator.
To avoid Zeus infections you need to have an updated antivirus installed on your computer which should detect it before it can cause problems.
3) Like-jacking These are the most popular tricks on Facebook and they can also spread viruses.
On the personal flow appear sensational or curious but credible news titles, with an extremely interesting title, a description and a link that leads to a page full of advertising.
This trick is based both on the fact that some people do not read the news at all and do not click the link, but they share or like it like this, on trust, and on a technique for which it is enough to click the link to automatically share the news.
In this way, the malicious link spreads and the infected ones increase that instead the link opens it.
A famous example of the hoax news that often leads to dangerous web pages is: " Sara Tommasi is dead ".
To be more peaceful, it is advisable to sift through each news item published on Facebook, check its source before clicking the link, recognize ambiguous ones (often they are long or very short links).
You can also use browser plugins that report dangerous links to suspicious sites like WOT or install antivirus applications on Facebook
4) Malicious extensions like Facebook Black
Last March, a scam spread through a browser plugin that turns Facebook into black.
However, the application also installs an obnoxious JavaScript file that captures profile data and promotes itself automatically by appearing in the news flow of friends.
This teaches that when installing extensions that change Facebook's behavior it is better to be careful and search for information on reliable blogs first.
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