Facebook Users Vulnerable To Malware, Almost Every Fifth Posts Is A Spam: Study

BitDefender surfaced its Facebook app called ‘Safego,’ just in the start of November, which promises a scan to Facebook users analyzing the links posted to their facebook profile. Just as social networks become the hub of internet usage, and internet’s most used activity is social networking, so do shift the spammers from previously emails to latest social networks. This particular application developed in Facebook’s platform presented a defensive mechanism for all sorts of spamming, it aim was to reduce the spread of malware’s in the website to the minimum.

According to the currently commenced scan, BitDefender has claimed to run so far, it declares that almost about one post out of every five posts of all Facebook users’ one kind or another of infections in their news feeds. Reading the applications Facebook page, it is posted: “Since its launch (almost a month ago), BitDefender safego scanned 17 million Facebook posts and it has detected infections on the news feeds of around 20% of its users. We detected several types of scam waves.”