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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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Protect Yourself From the Facebook Fan Check Virus

Check it out, the newest Facebook virus that's running rampant is one called the Facebook Fan Check Virus. Basically, the Facebook Fan Check Virus is an application that supposedly lets you check the number of fans on a page and allows you to set an rss feed to be posted to your Facebook fan page. Sounds great, doesn't it?

Well, it's not. The Facebook Fan Check Virus presents itself as an application that is 'down' and in turn redirecting you to a page that says it will notify you when the page comes back up again. So far, there are an estimated 368,000 Facebook accounts and that number is increasing by the minute.

Once your Facebook account is compromised by the Facebook Fan Check Virus, you're locked out of it. Your password is changed and your email is changed. You lose all access to your Facebook account and are unable to recover from it.

It then mails every single one of your friends in an attempt to infect them. The second they open the message, their account is compromised.

Facebook has not released any official updates about this because their team is still investigating and the virus is very hard to detect. So far, there are only two total programs able to detect it and prevent it.

The first is Registry Easy, which is managed by McAfee Secureshield. It's been around for a few years now and deals especially with keeping your registry clean and working. If you have a fragmented registry, it is much easier for viruses like the Facebook Fan Check Virus to work. It also protects from several viruses that have been spread on other social networks like MySpace and Twitter.

The second is Registry Cleaner and Optimizer, which has been validate by McAfee but is not one of their products. It follows the same premise as the prevous product, but it has also been voted 5 stars by Tuscows. It's nationally recognized and a good alternative to Registry Easy.

Both of these products WILL protect you from the Facebook Fan Check Virus. So stay safe and keep your Facebook account.
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