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Some more Facebook chat spams and infections

We have heard about many malicious application affected many people on facebook. Now this is the new one in which people are receiving the following kind of message from their friends:

I can’t believe that you can see who is viewing your profile! I can see the TOP 10 people and I am really OPENMOUTHED that my EX is still checking me every hour.You can also see WH0 CHECKS YOUR PR0FILE here @ [LINK]

Facebook infectionsAs I adviced in my last post also, do not click on such sort of malicious links. If you do make mistake of clicking it then you will be asked to ‘Allow’ a third party application, which demands access of your Facebook profile.

You may be tempted to click on ‘Allow’ to know who is checking your profile. But this is a malicious application. If you click on ‘Allow’ button then it means you are giving the application rights to post messages to your wall. Which may lead your Facebook friends to click on this link.
In the meantime You may also be asked to participate in a survey to win fabulous prizes. And to make this survey legitimate there’s interesting use of the Windows Security Center’s shield icon, shown in following figure:
facebook infections
The fact is that there is no way of finding out who has been viewing your Facebook page.Any application which claims it is going to tell you who has been stalking your Facebook profile is lying.
What if you already clicked on some malicious link or application? Then you should clean up your account before any further damage is done. I would discuss this in my next post.