Social media like Facebook is a great way to keep up with family, friends, and co-workers. Now it's also the next great way to get a Trojan virus to infect your computer.
Well, not Facebook itself. But apparently some innovative scammers have been sending some fraudulent e-mails that have Trojan viruses attached to them. Nice, huh?
Simple tip to avoid a costly mess: navigate to Facebook and view your updates, friend requests, and comments there. And also use common sense. I rarely click on links sent to me in e-mails. But if I did, I would heed the warning signs. See the log in window in the screenshot of the e-mail above? Um...Facebook doesn't do that.
While this isn't really Facebook's fault, it raises some concerns about Facebook. Recently, there has also been an increase in people hacking users' accounts and spamming people's walls. That's something I haven't seen since MySpace, and that's part of the reason I closed my MySpace account.
I can't help but think that this is another unfortunate side effect of Facebook opening the Web site up to everyone instead of just college students.
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