Facebook states potential Virus on Computer

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Facebook states potential Virus on Computer

Good evening Ladies and Gents,

no biggie of explenation, just look at the screenshot i took

Interesting: the link goes to the Apple support page and is actually no direct solution for this problem.
From a normal users point of view: I would just klick "done virus check" and continue surfing however 1. that doesnt solve the problem 2nd. lets look at it from a lega perspective:

Facebook requires me to agree that I ran "THE antivirus software" (which one is "the"? they dont mention any specific solution)
I just ran avast that couldnt find anything but then again I do not want to accept any terms and conditions that are very unclear 😉

any of you had similar problems of facebook? Could it be avast oversaw something?
Cheers

Flo

PS. I am not paranoid haha

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), MB Pro mid 2009, 2.53Ghz, 4GB DDR3

Posted on Feb 17, 2013 2:47 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 17, 2013 2:50 PM in response to Flozzie

Do yourself a favor and delete FaceBook then they will stop sending your these false messages.

Show how much FaceBook knows because there is still no virus that can attack the Mac.

Allan

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Klaus1

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Feb 17, 2013 2:54 PM in response to Flozzie

Facebook is a known source of malware, and has very recently itself been hacked:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/16/net-us-usa-social-facebook-idUSBRE91E1 6O20130216

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seventy one

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Feb 17, 2013 2:57 PM in response to Flozzie

No; you certainly aren't paranoid. This is the same approach I once met from MacKeeper. Allan is right. Remove facebook (did you ever really need it?).

Regards. 71.

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Linc Davis

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Feb 17, 2013 4:18 PM in response to Flozzie

There have been many reports of this issue within the last couple of days. Facebook has not announced anything as far as I can tell, but I suspect it's a sequel of a recent attack on ths site. Whether genuine or not, the warning is false and you should ignore it. Whatever you do, don't download anything from a link in the page.

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thomas_r.

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Feb 18, 2013 6:07 AM in response to Flozzie

It sounds like there have been a lot of similar reports, but note that what you describe sounds like a normal Facebook security response. Of course, it would be wise not to download software from any of the links on those pages, but nonetheless, all that has probably happened is that your account got hacked and was used to send Facebook spam. There may simply have been a large-scale attack that compromised many accounts in a short period of time.

For more on getting your account unlocked, see:

Facebook isn’t letting me log in and is telling me I have a virus!

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