Important Warning About the Fan Check Virus

Hackers could be buying stolen electronics, making fraudulent purchases with your credit card and getting you into serious legal trouble without you even realizing it.

Don't let them. Do something about it before it's too late.

You should know that your computer may already be infected with the Facebook Fan Check Virus. Symptoms of an infected computer include the following:
  • System Slowdowns
  • Internet Browser Slowdown
  • Pop-ups
  • Settings being changed
  • Random System Crashes or Reboots
If you have any of these symptoms and you use Facebook, there is a very high (roughly 62.3%) chance that your computer may be infected with the Fan Check Virus, also known as Virus.Trojan.FanCheck.B8 and Virus.Trojan.FanCheck.A12.

The virus is spread by clicking on a link or granting a rogue Facebook application access to your Facebook account. The Fan Check Virus has been known to steal passwords to Facebook Accounts, MySpace Accounts, Web-based Email Accounts (Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail are especially vulnerable to this due to their popularity), and SMTP/POP3 Email Accounts. It then attempts to propagate (with a success rate of 20%) to any contacts on compromised accounts by sending messages, tagging other people in photos and sending emails to other users with a link. The link may appear to be anything from a simple "Hey, check out this video at: [Link]," just "[Link]" (generally using an url shortener such at bit.ly), or even a Youtube-like video posted to a user's wall for his or her friends to see.

Our security team is currently working to prevent the spread of this Facebook Fan Check Virus.

Our tests have found that only NoAdware has been proven to automatically remove the virus. You can find it here. To fix registry errors caused by the virus, both Registry Easy (here) and ErrorSmart (here) will fix them. All three makers of the afforementioned programs have agreed to give users special rebates and coupons in effort to combat the lack of action from major antivirus companies and reduce costs to the user.

That being said, don't be a victim to something you can easily prevent. Don't let yourself be harassed legally or financially by hackers.

Recent Updates About the Facebook Fan Check Virus

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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Fan Check Virus: Social Manipulaton to Google

The source of the fan check virus is not from Facebook nor is it directly form a Facebook application. It's from Google.

The entire fan check virus fiasco was caused by hackers creating a popular trend in Google using a keyword of the same name and then uploading a broken application to the Fan Check Application. They then proceeded to spam (See Google here) Facebook discussion boards with questions pertaining to the actual fan check application.

There are two proposed actual reasons behind this:
  • The entire hoax was done by one hacker group.
  • The application was broken, people asked on the discussion board and hackers picked up on the keyword people were using.
The evolution of the keyword on Google trends went something like "what is fan check?" which evolved into "facebook fan check" to "fan check virus." If you note the results on Google for the search term, most websites that come up are marked malicious by Google already. These websites are the same ones that spam Google trends with spam normally.

The simple solution is to NOT visit any of these websites on Google.

The recommendation of this team is to scan with an Adware removal program such as NoAdware which successfully disinfected 99.9% of systems we found infected with the Fan Check Virus. You can find it here. We recommend it because it's a product that has thoroughly passed our standards.
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