Facebook Fan Check Virus: Has it Spread to Twitter?

Has the Facebook Fan Check Virus finally made it's way to Twitter? There are reports of users starting to tweet malicious urls that infect users the very moment their computers load the malicious page. Hackers have begun using the mass network of Twitter followers to attach their links to some of Twitter's "popular trends."

As of current, this is just a preliminary report. Our team recommends that under no circumstances should users click on any links on Twitter, especially if the link is included with any popular trends.

As always, if you have clicked on a malicious link, please be sure to run a scan with your copy of NoAdware. Otherwise, you may fall victim to anything from identity fraud to credit card/check fraud to lost social networking and email accounts.

Almost a Week Later and It's Like The Fan Check Virus Never Happened... Or is it?

There's still an overwhelming number of reports of computers with viruses left on their computer from the Facebook fan check virus incident. Roughly three out of four computers that were on Facebook the past Labor Day could be infected with it.

Even if you're not infected, there's a very likely chance that your computer may still suffer some slowdowns from the fan check virus. (There's been reports of it affecting both the registry and several .DLL files in Windows.)

If you think your computer is running slower than it was before last Labor Day weekend, then do a virus scan. If you have a virus or adware, remove it with your anitivirus/antispyware program.

If your computer is still slow, you probably have damaged DLL files and a compromised registry. You can check out ErrorSmart (click here) for the best tool to fix this.

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.

More News About the Facebook Fan Check Virus

More news has been released about the Fan Check Virus. Rumors are circulating that it is a hoax, but the Fan Check Virus is not a hoax. The Facebook Fan Check Virus is real, and it will infect you if you visit the Fan Check application.

There are reports that it compromises accounts after becoming a fan of the application. This may be true, but there are also confirmed reports that just visiting the Fan Check application leads to acquiring a virus.

Our team is currently investing these reports about the Fan Check Virus and will report in on it when we find out more about it.

In addition to Registry Easy, we have verified that people with NoAdware installed have been rendered immune from the Fan Check Virus. Our team has found that both products have protected vulnerable computers from registry modifications that the Facebook Fan Check Virus makes.