Delica Canada | Mitsubishi Van Club

Posted: **Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:31 pm**

Just a warning to anyone using the Fan checker on Facebook, I have just been sent the following by a good friend who is an authorised Microsoft tech, so as you would imagine he gets a lot of usful information about viruses.

Security Researchers at Anti-Virus firm Sophos have confirmed that the FanCheck Application does infact appear to be doing something malign with users FB Accounts and is responsible for Database problems on the FB Network over the past 48 hours. Users who have allowed the FanCheck Application on their profile are advised to REMOVE IT IMMEDIATELY... Read more! To remove it from your FB Profile, click APPLICATIONS in Bottom Left corner, Choose 'Edit Applications', then when all the APPs you have added are shown in a list Remove it with the 'X' to get it off your Profile! Currently if you try to use FanCheck the App says it’s “adding new features and new capacity” which “could take a few days”. In the meanwhile you should become a fan, and they’ll send you an update when things are back online. Don’t do it! All it will do is to infect your FaceBook account sending an email to all your friends who will be infected too.

A few people have reported that the Facebook FanCheck App has changed their email and password for their accounts — nothing confirmed on that for definate as yet, so you’d better take caution when allowing new Apps to install on your Profile!

As an additional precautionary measure if you have used FanCheck you are advised to Delete any Pictures from your Profiles and also De-Tag yourself from any Pictures that have been Generated by it!

An official statement from Facebook regarding the whole issue is due soon!!

Just thought I would let you all know

Posted: **Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:48 pm**

Sounds like a hoax to me: http://mashable.com/2009/09/07/facebook ... irus-hoax/

Social Media Guide wrote:We’ve received tips about a Facebook (Facebook) application called Fan Check; reports say this application is actually a virus, and should be avoided at all costs. We’ve dug a bit deeper, however, and it seems more likely that the rumor about Fan Check (even if the actual virus exists, which we’ve found no proof of) has been used to lead users to various malware and spyware ridden sites.

This alleged virus has only been described on a couple of blogs, such as this one, but we’ve found no reports about it on sites of security firms such as McAfee or Symantec.

Posted: **Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:57 pm**

I never click on anything...little games...or anything like that on Facebook. Right now if I click on any video put on Facebook by a friend a thing pops up saying I need an updated version of flashplayer to see it. I was suspicious and never clicked on that...good thing...I found out later I would be downloading a virus. So right now I can't view any videos on Facebook.

Posted: **Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:46 am**

I have since been told that its more to do with the fact that the sites people are going to to find out about the aparant virus.

But I was told about it so I thought I would pass it on

Delica Canada | Mitsubishi Van Club

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