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Protect Your Facebook From Porn Spam!

For the past day, Facebook  users has been bombarded by pornougraphic and violent pictures spammed on their news feeds.

"Many people have reported seeing highly-offensive images on their Facebook news feeds," said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at antivirus vendor Sophos, in an interview Tuesday. "But exactly how those images got there and what cause them to appear, is still somewhat of a mystery."




Facebook has currently quarantined the  accounts and pages used in the attacks, however, users are still urged to safeguard themselves in the future:

  •  Make sure your browser is updated.
  • Be careful in allowing apps access your personal info.
  • Don't ever copy and paste code into your browser's address bar unless you're confident the source is legit.
  • Change  your password. Make it strong by combining numbers, symbols, upper and lower case letters. as much as possible, avoid using dictionary words.
  • Remove unwanted apps. This can be done in the accuount settings.
  • Run an antivirus and anti-malware scan on your system.
  • Report anything unusual that you see in Facebook by clicking the "report" links on the social network site.

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