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Apparently six million people would follow you. There is this cool application called Fan Check, which analyzes a lot of details with wall posts, status replies, chat logs, etc. and determines who are your “biggest fans” on your profile. It was cool, until a bunch of hackers decided to use it to their benefit by fooling a bunch of people (a simple google search would have made them know it’s bullcrap) into thinking it was a virus and removing it, and then downloading an application ON THEIR COMPUTER to remove the “virus”. One is not going to get a virus from having a Facebook app unless if they download something, but half the people who used that application apparently don’t get that. And now they actually have viruses. Beautiful.

12 million people were signed up on the application, that number has now gone down to 6 million, and it is currently down for “maintenance”, even though the application has nothing malicious. That said, all these websites claiming to get rid of it are giving viruses to the people who download them. They’re just shitty fake antiviruses that completely rape your computer.

The reason I know about this is…everyone on my Facebook was posting the same message that is being reported to come from hackers. “Urgent!!! The fan Check application is a Virus that takes 48 hours to kick in. Even if you are tagged in a photo the virus still attacks you. Please inform all your friends remove / delete this application ASAP…. rewrite this message and or copy and paste to all your friends.”

Source: Fox Maine

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Tags: Facebook, Facebook virus, Fan Check, Fan Check is not a virus, Fan Check virus, Idiots on Facebook, morons, phishing, virus scam

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