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Danger level 8
Type: Adware
Common infection symptoms:
  • Annoying Pop-up's
  • Connects to the internet without permission
  • Installs itself without permissions
  • Strange toolbar installed without Your permission

Facebook Adware

Facebook Adware is malicious adware which will drive you mad. Facebook Adware may gain access to your computer system via the popular social networking site Facebook.You need to know that Facebook Adware may not come in isolation and may actually come bundled with many other dangerous parasites. Facebook Adware may result in your computer system malfunctioning,so it is very important that you are able to both detec as well as automatically delete the malicious Facebook Adware.

The adware is able to spread via Facebook, because of its applications that were introduced in 2007. When you allow a Facebook application (such as FarmVille or even Love Horoscope), to access your personal data, you might also be allowing various types of adware to access your computer or your mailbox. For example, having allowed one application to use your personal data, you might constantly receive spam emails from the adware, offering you one service or the other, that you don't really need.

For this reason, you have to seriously think before allowing an application to access your personal data. After all, before you press the ALLOW button, it does inform you that once allowed the application will be able to access such information as:

". . . your name, your profile picture, your birthday, your hometown location, your current location, your political views, your activities, your interests, your relationship status, your dating interests, your relationship interests, your summer plans, your Facebook user network affiliations, your education history, your work history, copies of photos in your Facebook Site photo albums, and a list of user IDs mapped to your Facebook friends."

Thus is is vital that you keep your private information safe, because with Facebook Adware bombarding you with unnecessary information, your private data might just as well be leaked to a third party, that can use it in various illegal operations. So even though initially Facebook Adware does seem more like an annoying nuisance rather than a real threat, you should take it seriously and remove Facebook Adware and all of its components from your computer and your Facebook account.

Due to the fact that there are various programs associated with Facebook Adware it might be extremely hard to get rid of it on your own. Hence, do not hesitate to invest in a reliable computer safeguard program, that will scan your system and remove Facebook Adware along with its components automaticaly.

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Comments

  1. Larry Hoezee Oct 3, 2014

    Thanks for your post on "Facebook Adware" – it is a useful resource and I’ve bookmarked it for future reference.
    Please also read there any other antivirus blogs or (web resources in general) that you can recommend to me?
    Cheers!

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