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.