Thursday, 13 March 2008

Facebook in Spyware Scandal

Yes, it's finally happened - even the legenedary Facebook, the worlds no.1 social networking site has now been accused of infecting people's computers with spyware.

It seems that spyware has been targetting Facebook's widget functionality that allows you to add your own little programs into your Facebook account. Then, when someone uses your widget application, it will ask them if they want to download the widget to their computer and this is when the spyware infects your machine.

Personally, I simply HATE all those widgets and other stuff that literally clogs up your requests each day, so I just ignore all these anyway, and given the latest spyware threats, I will be ignoring these with even more passion than before and I hope you will do the same.

Facebook currently has around 50 million users, let's make ourselves aware of this issue and try and not let it spread to an epidemic!