What should people look out for on facebook? I am on there everyday and I have never had any problems. I do have a Mac at home, but here in Japan, I have a laptop from work, but I still haven't had any issues. What on facebook is harmful?

 

Yeah, I am with Purple Pride....I just started facebook...what is harmful and how do you know? I am worried now.

 

Ignore each and every one of the invites to play different games and download different applications (five things, etc.). The only thing I do on FB is text-based or uploading photos. No video, audio, games, etc.

Ignore each and every one of the invites to play different games and download different applications (five things, etc.). The only thing I do on FB is text-based or uploading photos. No video, audio, games, etc.

 

Same for me & I have never had any problems with Facebook.

 

For the most part, it's relatively easy to figure out what's a virus and what is not. Most links are viruses, especially when they say "check out this video of you", etc. etc.

 

If you don't know what it is, don't click on it.

Ignore each and every one of the invites to play different games and download different applications (five things, etc.). The only thing I do on FB is text-based or uploading photos. No video, audio, games, etc.

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Same for me & I have never had any problems with Facebook.

 

For the most part, it's relatively easy to figure out what's a virus and what is not. Most links are viruses, especially when they say "check out this video of you", etc. etc.

 

If you don't know what it is, don't click on it.

 

That is good advice for life in general! :lol:

Yeah if you're doing what Facebook was initially meant to be on the website, (photos, wall posts, messaging, etc.) then Facebook is not harmful at all.

I agree that it works out well for Mac owners. And I recognize you probably weren't doing this, but it always gets under my skin when Mac guys tout the virus thing as evidence of the superiority of the Mac. If the situation were reversed, it would be the Mac that was getting slammed by viruses. People would find a way, they just don't care to.

 

FWIW, I've had one incident of a virus on my computer ever, and it was not a result of my action, but of my wife's, who got it THROUGH FACEBOOK.

I couldn't agree more with the bolded part. OS X is just another flavor of UNIX. It is definitely hackable, just not worth the time due to it's low market share. I'd love to have a MacBook, though. I just can't justify the cost, given what I need a computer to do. Macs are great for video, graphics, and publishing, but to run the vast majority of gaming, accounting, engineering, science, programming, or business software, you still have to load and run Windows.

 

AVG and other security software manufactures have added link filters (java script filters) to their software to filter for viruses like Anti-Virus 2009 and the like. That's why your browsers are going slower after you load the newest versions of the AVS you are using. These links are appearing on, so called, safe sites, now, and not just Facebook. I'm afraid AVG's version of the filter doesn't quite cut the mustard. As far as Norton goes, I only work with Corporate and not the personal version, but it's lacking, too.

 

The bottom line... If you get a pop up wanting to scan your computer for viruses when you are browsing the internet (even if it says that it is your own anti-virus software), right click on clock in the sys tray, select task manager, click on the Applications tab, select any application associated with your browser (the one associated with the pop up should already be highlighted), and click on End Task. IN MOST CASES, that will close your browser without addressing anything else and prevent any software from downloading.