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By: 2010 – Year Of The Zombie Cloud? | Business Computing World

2010 – Year Of The Zombie Cloud? | Business Computing World — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:43:12 +0000

[...] crime and its attendant money-making, bot recruitment and Fake AV pushing scams. Facebook has been abused by rogue Apps, designed to fool users into clicking links that reward the creator through pay-per-click affiliate [...]

By: Questions still linger over Facebook and your privacy : Dailycensored.com

Questions still linger over Facebook and your privacy : Dailycensored.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:35:35 +0000

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By: Scam on Facebook

Scam on Facebook — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:45:22 +0000

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By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:42:17 +0000

hi again, just one final update – not sure if someone here addressed Facebook, but as of today i was able to go in under the “Never Allowed to Post” section, find all of the remaining problem apps, including the one with the malicious links and there was now a “Profile” link next to them which wasn’t there before; it allowed me to go directly to the app’s page, which previously couldn’t be done without “allowing” the app again, so this was extremely helpful

my question at this point is, why are they still there? i found it interesting that some of them which had no fans or users previously, now had hundreds of users and some fans, so i’m wondering if those links took me originally to a page that was created to look like “Send Your Friends a Cup of Coffee”(Sunrise, Good Morning, etc…)

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:23:39 +0000

couldn’t find any contact information for you Ric, so i posted this here… if you like you can email me as that is my correct email address, maybe you can make more sense of these applications, the fact that they take you off Facebook and try to install “anti-spyware” on you is worrisome but i have no idea what they are really doing… perhaps you can convince Facebook to look at these and remove them? since FB doesn’t seem to be responding to others’ reports… thanks! :)

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:34:57 +0000

i’m far from technically literate, but am certain there is something malicious with an application that specifically is called “Send Your Friends a Cup of Coffee”… (aka: a Sunset, a Teddy Hug, a Sunrise, etc… ALL are malicious)

upon realizing some things about application removal, ie; you need to actually find them under “Never Allowed to Post” in Application Settings and then Block them; then go back to reset your Privacy Settings, as every application accepted unchecks it and allows all of your information to be sent to ALL of your friends apps (see the story by the ACLU http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705326328/ACLU-Facebook-knows-too-much.html) i realized what was happening when some would be BLOCKED but would NOT dissappear as all of the non-malicous apps did, they still remain as of today…

i took screenshots and made a photo album to show friends what was going on, and how every time you used the “Create a Gift Application” which is supposedly the platform for “Send Your Friends a _____”, there was a third party developer way down at the bottom of the page also, and when i clicked the privacy violations link, it took me OFF facebook and tried to get me to install something… i’ve reported this to Facebook and have seen others did as well, yet they’ve done nothing… i wish i’d never allowed a single application at this point, but it’s too late… i wish others would listen… i may make a website to show what is happening, where i can post the screenshots so others can understand what is going on…

By: More rogue Facebook Apps appearing

More rogue Facebook Apps appearing — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:03:46 +0000

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Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:19:39 +0000

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By: Facebook disables 6 rogue phishing apps, but 5 more appear : BizzRoot

Facebook disables 6 rogue phishing apps, but 5 more appear : BizzRoot — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:15:50 +0000

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