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Facebook Widget Installs Zango Spyware

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

BaCa writes "A malicious Facebook Widget actively spreading on the social networking site ultimately prompts users to install the infamous "Zango" adware/spyware. The tremendous success and lightning fast expansion of Facebook empowered the social networking giant with an impressive user base. Needless to say, in a digital world where web traffic equals money, such a user base attracts spammers, virus/spyware seeders, and other ethic-less online marketers like honey would attract flies."

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  1. Without exception... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All the apps are terrible. Asides from their 'myspacesqueness', they also release your entire profile & friends to an unknown entity. Facebooks TOS is bad enough, but atleast you have a sense of who your dropping all thoughts of ownership or privacy too.

    'caring' - imageogram

  2. Re:What is "Facebook"? by STrinity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Think MySpace only it looks like a corporate website c.1999 instead of a Geocities page c.1996. Oh, and with pointless activities.

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