Facebook
is a exciting place to hook up with your loved and dear ones. It offers very
good experience to meet up with different people and get to know them. However
if you are not fully prepared and protected you can easily land up with several
issues like you can get your Facebook account hacked or your system may become
corrupted due to the Facebook viruses that lurk there. So you need to be
prepared in advance before you get into some problem for Facebook.
Facebook
viruses are very intricate piece of course and no matter how much well-versed
you are in computers they missed to leak into your system, if you’re not
careful enough. In certain circumstances it may leave your Facebook account vulnerable to hackers, and eventually may lead to hacking of FB account. One of the surplus measures that one may take is to use a
reputable antivirus program on the system. Try to ensure that you are updating
your anti-malware program on daily basis and are having latest virus database
definitions. No matter how much alert you are, the Facebook Trojan viruses may
still in fact your system, even your firewall may not block it completely. If
you are a avid Facebook users, then you should make it a routine to scan your
system on daily basis after using Facebook.
Videos
are one of the most common features of Facebook and people are usually found of
sharing videos on Facebook more than often. Most of the videos on Facebook
nowadays are bogus and they have a wire is attached to it. Sometimes while
playing a video you are asked to install a plug-in on your browser in order to
watch the video, and was a user installs a plug-in on his/her browser, he is
infected. Sometimes clicking on a video link may redirect you to and infected
website, where ultimately you may get infected.
Facebook
is also known for millions of free applications that are available on it. Most
of the applications on Facebook are malicious and are run by hackers. Hence
before installing any application on your Facebook profile, make sure that it
is authentic. A risky Facebook application may compromise your Facebook account
and in some cases your Facebook account may get hacked. Most of the teenagers
while using Facebook to upload their personal pics and download other sorts of
stuff from Facebook may also get infected. Has it is advisable to make sure
that you are not downloading any suspicious file from their.
Many
Facebook viruses and Worms are safe like Koobface worm. Some Facebook Trojan
viruses are dangerous and hence the need to be remote from the system. A good
antivirus program can easily quarantine any vicious Facebook virus. Another way
to handle such a situation is in case you are not able to completely remove the
virus from the system, then you may need to clean your Windows registries. It
is recommended to take a clean backup of your system or create a restore point
before attempting any such thing, so that just in case if anything goes wrong,
you can revert back to your earlier profile. There are many free registry
cleaners available on the Internet, you can download any one of them for that
purpose.
In order to protect your Facebook accounts from getting hacked kindly make sure that you do not share your personal details info or anything pertaining to you with any stranger on the Internet. Also avoid downloading any unknown stuff from the Facebook in order to make your Facebook experience more charming and wonderful.