Thursday, April 8, 2010

Week 13: Clear

You need to be very careful when browsing the Internet so that you don't wind up with a virus on your computer. One very easy place to get a virus happens to be a very popular Web site - Facebook.

With millions of users on this social networking site, it has become a really easy target for hackers worldwide. There have been numerous instances where people’s profiles have been hacked and their Facebook profile information has been used against them to access their private and confidential data, such as their bank accounts.

Have you received strange messages from a friend, asking you about irrelevant questions with links embedded in it? If you have, be careful not to ever click on the link as it is might likely someone who has hacked your friend's profile and is trying to spread viruses through it.

For more information on viruses and Facebook, check out how Facebook can turn your computer into a zombie and how e-mails from Facebook can contain viruses as well.

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