Almost as viral as the latest Facebook scam are the warnings users have been posting to each other since the beginning of the weekend.
It’s similar to many previous scams that we’ve covered in that it leverages a javascript exploit to automatically spam a user’s friends’ walls. As ZDNet previously covered, the scam resulted in users posting something which states “Facebook now has a dislike button! Click ‘Enable Dislike Button’ to turn on the new feature”.
A link from the application then drove users to a page which offered some Javascript that they were instructed to place in their browser address bar.
When searching for other people who have fallen for the scam, we found numerous people warning each other about it instead — yet that isn’t preventing many folks from reposting the dislike button spiel despite all the warnings.
I haven’t been able to find the original scam at this point since so many people are warning others about it. However, if you see your friends posting about the dislike button, make sure to let them know that it isn’t real!
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Comment by Dede — May 16, 2011 @ 1:29 pm
So much for the new security features..
Comment by @derpenxyne — May 16, 2011 @ 1:43 pm
this is the real dislike button for chrome and mozilla (the blog is in spanish) http://cosasparaelface.blogspot.com/2009/12/agreg...
Comment by lucho — May 16, 2011 @ 1:46 pm
Hi Nick,
Thank you for writing this. It's important to stay on top of these scams and tricks to keep participation in social media safe and friendly. I recently wrote a post on a similar topic – cyber bullying – and would love for you to read it, if interested: http://ow.ly/4VSHX
Be well,
-c
Comment by Clare Munn — May 16, 2011 @ 3:55 pm
Hi Nick,
Thank you for writing this. It's important to stay on top of these scams and tricks to keep participation in social media safe and friendly. I recently wrote a post on a similar topic – cyber bullying – and would love for you to read it, if interested: http://ow.ly/4VSHX
Be well,
-c
Comment by Clare Munn — May 16, 2011 @ 3:55 pm
Hi Nick,
Thank you for writing this. It's important to stay on top of these scams and tricks to keep participation in social media safe and friendly. I recently wrote a post on a similar topic – cyber bullying – and would love for you to read it, if interested: http://ow.ly/4VSHX
Be well,
-c
Comment by Clare Munn — May 16, 2011 @ 3:55 pm
It is problem that occur rarely but have some impact on the browsing speed the article content belong to bit informative thanks for sharing.
Comment by dallmeier — May 16, 2011 @ 5:33 pm
FYI – The scam disappeared because the code used to propagate it was hosted by a 3rd party and it was removed (by whom remains unclear).
The same thing happened with the Nicole Santos worm which was hosted on Dropbox. Facebook didn't actually fix anything, the code was simply removed from Dropbox.
Comment by Daily Dose of Risk — May 18, 2011 @ 3:29 am
One of my friends had one of these "Enable Dislike Button" posts appear on their wall, so i blogged about it: http://www.alanhart.co.uk/archives/2011/05/18/fac...
Comment by Alan hart — May 18, 2011 @ 9:09 am
I always do, but there are those who don't listen and click anyway, or repost the crap! Really wish people would get wise on this stuff, but I guess you can't change STUPID!
Comment by Geneva — May 18, 2011 @ 10:15 am
Users of facebook just have to be sentitive of any maliciouc activity and careful not to fall prey.
Comment by Facebook Tricks — May 19, 2011 @ 8:54 am
you have got to be kidding me…
Comment by luis — May 20, 2011 @ 6:53 pm
Guys, instead of just indicating the problem maybe someone can give advice for us, who did the stupid thing and pasted that bloody javascript exploit. how can we remove the f*cking thing?!!
Please!!
Comment by _very_stupid_guy — June 20, 2011 @ 5:35 pm
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