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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."

4 of 137 comments (clear)

  1. Re:"like honey would attract flies" by dgun · · Score: 0, Redundant

    poop.

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    FAQs are evil.
  2. Re:It's stupid WINDOWS users, duhh by ohsmeguk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wholeheartedly concur...

  3. Re:"like honey would attract flies" by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Uhmmm vinigar ?

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    Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
  4. I'm on a Mac, so wasn't affected.. but.. by osssmkatz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's worse than an app.. it's actually an ad. It may be an actual app. However, it advertises itself as a banner and says you have 11 messages waiting. Click it, and it says they delete so many messages a day, and you are down to 3. I figured out pretty quickly when they asked for my gender (which they should have already if they were really a Facebook app) that it was fake.. besides the fact, it used images.. but there was no border around the banner, and no word "Advertisement". Facebook needs to correct this.. at a minimum.. and make it clear when you are leaving the Facebook site. But seriously, for Windows users, don't install executables. You know those "install and run" dialog boxes.. say "No." --Sam