While protecting your computer from potential hazards on Facebook is a great idea, the latest Facebook Antivirus application is completely fake. The application automatically tags your friends walls with antivirus-like images but doesn’t really accomplish anything. Ironically it doesn’t even appear to manipulate its results, it just reuses the same image (pictured to the right) over and over again.
As F-Secure points out, “once installed on one friend’s account, this application tags 20 friends into a picture”. While it doesn’t claim to truly solve any problems, the application is misleading enough. My guess is that Facebook will simply remove this application if it hasn’t been removed already, however more important is simply to avoid any application that claims to be a Facebook Antivirus.
Not only is the image misleading, but it also includes Facebook branded icons. Most users have figured out that this application accomplishes absolutely nothing but if you happen to get tagged in a photo by one of your friends, don’t fall for this trick: avoid installing any Facebook antivirus applications. While we’re not sure that there’s any damage done by this application, there’s no benefit of installing it as it will spam all your friends.
Has this image been showing up in your profile? Have any of your friends been affected?
This looks like a knockoff of the panda antivirus events page.
Comment by WLM — March 29, 2010 @ 12:04 pm
i find this kind of thing pretty scary!
Comment by adelaide dj — March 29, 2010 @ 3:13 pm
These annoying apps are really, well, annoying. Thanks for letting us know that this app is fake.
Comment by Deborah — March 29, 2010 @ 4:10 pm
I had some idiot who had me tagged using this, plus that stupid "who's looking at your profile" app. Some people never learn. He's blocked now, which is the only way to respond to idiots.
Comment by Seamus Henderson — March 30, 2010 @ 7:47 am
Ok now its on our Facebook. How do you get rid of it?
Comment by Michael Little — March 30, 2010 @ 1:28 pm
S.S.D.D.!!!!!! FB BLOWS as it does NOT care how people think their system should work. Every time they work on it it just gets screwed up more. Time to find a new social network!
SIMPLE FIX TO CRACK BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by jn/jbjb'/ — April 11, 2010 @ 1:15 am