Facebook partners with McAfee, Symantec, Microsoft, others to offer free antivirus software, expanded URL blacklist
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Upwards of 90 percent of "hacked" Facebook accounts don't get compromised on Facebook, the company once told us. Yet, since Facebook has become one of the most important destinations for posting links, the company has been forced to protect its users from external threats as well as internal ones. Facebook today announced that its URL blacklist system that protects users from nefarious websites now incorporates the massive URL blacklists of Microsoft, McAfee, Sophos, Symantec, and TrendMicro. If Facebook decides that a link you've clicked could be malicious, it warns you — now, its database of bad links just got a whole lot bigger. »read more
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