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Beware of Facebook 'Friends' Who May Trash Your Laptop

January 29, 2009

Beware of Facebook 'Friends' Who May Trash Your Laptop

Wall Street Journal, Joseph De Avila

Ryan Naraine, Kaspersky security evangelist, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal. The article is about those not-so-friendly ‘friends' on Facebook and provides anecdotes from users whose computers crashed from malicious links on Facebook. Ryan suggests that users proceed with the same caution when they receive messages on social networks as they would with their e-mail. He also cautioned users to be wary of messages from friends that don't sound like they are from that person. Read more...

Beware of Facebook 'Friends' Who May Trash Your Laptop

Beware of Facebook 'Friends' Who May Trash Your Laptop
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