wife is on it all the time.

it's a pretty good tool to share pics and idly comment on each others activities.


she got a virus few weeks ago that forced a total re-format of the hard drive.
took about a week to get it all back working & all the proprietary drivers reloading.

she was uploading some pics to facebook tonight, and got a huge virus/spoof/scam thing saying she had 70 viruses in one folder, 100 in another, 500 in "my documents"
about 5 files downloaded and tried to execute.


was kinda crazy.


we are running full scans, nothing found yet.

but we still have not recovered some of the drivers from the last re-format, and do NOT want to do that again.

 

Two of our computers at work crashed mysteriously after the employees had been on Facebook. I have banned anyone from going there now.....

 

I don't understand the whole point of Facebook. I got on it when someone from my highschool was organizing the reunion, and for that is was great. But people get on there and explain their minute by minute activities of the day. They post pictures that no one but them are really interested in. They suggest people to me that I should accept as my friend when I don't even know who they are.

Then there are the games... Farmville, Mafia and Zooville? I'm sorry, but if you have enough time to spend on that kinda thing, go get a part time job where you can actually do something constructive.

 

Facebook can get you wonderful new job opportunities.....

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/around-to...ok-Status.html

 

...and they should be fired. I know if it were my company and I'm paying people good money to be doing a job, they had better be doing it or go away. I used to have a facebook account but got rid of it recently. I just get sick of hearing so much about people i haven't seen in 20 years. It gets old.

 

Yea I've gotton a couple of e-mails from people saying that they have added me to their friend list on facebook. I just reply, sorry not interested. As far as viruses, you can get them from any site. Thats why it's always good to have a good firewall & update your virus scanner often. Oh & don't forget to back up your files, address book & favorites.

 

What if your not paying them good money lol....

 

So you do not care that Billy Bob Booger Boy had a BM before he went to the Mall?

 

Facebook by itself is not full of viruses but once you start in with the games you open up to a whole new threat level.

As for the OP question. There are some pop up links that pretend to run a virus scan and report major infestations. Then says to clean them you have to down load their scan and removal tools. Just shut down explorer and ignore those bogus scans and use your own anti virus to check your computer.

 

Here's more of your tax dollars going down the drain.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10461003-93.html
In other words, the Network Management offices are being directed to unblock access to Twitter and Facebook on the DOD unclass networks.

 

Great, something else for me to deal with out here in the sandbox. I wonder how many calls we'll get for "I can't open my Facebook" now.

 

I suspect there are viruses on these social networking thingys, as it appears something is affecting the brains of the people on there. It may be the dumb down virus, I don't know.

 

The Internet generally speaking, is a cesspool laden with micreants whose sole purpose in life is to a) surf ****, b) create malware for the fun of it, or c) create malware for the purpose of bilking money and/or valuable information from the unsuspecting or ill-prepared. Those micreants may or may not be organized at any level up to and including state sponsorship.

Facebook just provides an easy target vector. You'd have been borked by a hacked DTR page by now if somebody thought it was worth the effort.