Slashkey, the developers behind FarmTown, is actively alerting users to a new virus going around thanks to rogue advertising being displayed within the game. The advertising tells users to beware of a new virus on their computer and once clicked, they are infected with malware even though there was no virus installed on their computer to begin with. Below is a copy of the alert being sent to users.
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FarmTown users have been going crazy this afternoon as the application has become inaccessible to millions of users around the world. FarmTown is currently the most popular game on Facebook according to daily active users and it continues to grow at around 2 percent, or upwards of 300,000 new users per day. So what are the users doing while Farm Town is down? They are refreshing the application to see if it’s back up of course!
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Farmtown has been on a tear recently and as of today, the game has overtaken Pet Society as the largest application on the Facebook platform based on daily active users. The game doesn’t appear to be slowing down either. That’s probably because the game is as addictive as crack. Just one week ago I wrote about the game’s explosive growth over the past month and since I wrote about it, I can’t stop playing.
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