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    Facebook and long like statuses?

    Anyone else noticed people liking groups with very long names that link to some dodgy website? Not sure if it's some kind of facebook exploit or what..

    I know dodgy links and such have been around on msn for yearss but it is odd..

    Any idea?

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    Re: Facebook and long like statuses?

    At first I thought you were talking about the Fun Facts one about clicking joints but I found some foreign thing. It took me to a lebanese search engine. There was another, single word, one also written in French and that took me to something similar. I would avoid it.

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    Re: Facebook and long like statuses?

    Quote Originally Posted by Tikkabhuna View Post
    At first I thought you were talking about the Fun Facts one about clicking joints
    Was this about having a clicking neck?

    Don't click 'em - there be malware galore floating around on facebook atm

    http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001517.html

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    Re: Facebook and long like statuses?

    We've been getting an influx of people bringing back laptops at work this week because they have clicked on these links in facebook and odd things have been happening within windows. We've had demands for refunds to deamnds for us re-installing the os for free lol

    I don't click any links in facebook at all, far far safer.

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    Re: Facebook and long like statuses?

    Quote Originally Posted by Tikkabhuna View Post
    At first I thought you were talking about the Fun Facts one about clicking joints but I found some foreign thing. It took me to a lebanese search engine. There was another, single word, one also written in French and that took me to something similar. I would avoid it.
    Quote Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN View Post
    Was this about having a clicking neck?

    Don't click 'em - there be malware galore floating around on facebook atm

    http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001517.html
    Yup.. looks about right then!

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    Re: Facebook and long like statuses?

    This is what I keep seeing...




    but sometimes similar stuff in french, or just something that "likes" a dodgy looking site..

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    Re: Facebook and long like statuses?

    Would be nice to have a tool (either via a website or browser plug-in) that enables an image preview of a page from an url (including those shortened ones). Recently one of my friend decided to 'like' one of those "Make $$$ from home" link. Of course it's a scam, but I had to make sure before I informed him (I have reason to believe that the he might've fallen for it). I ended up using Sandboxie with my browser which was a minor hassle. Turned out that only the web page's content was dodgy (as expected).

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    Re: Facebook and long like statuses?

    TooNice: if you're patient you could try something like http://browsershots.org/

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    Re: Facebook and long like statuses?

    Ooh, that's the right idea (I think, running a test now which will take a couple minutes). I am always surprised that you can find something fairly close to whatever you need software wise.

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    Re: Facebook and long like statuses?

    Newest one is a stupid site called I'm Awesome!!(except written about 1000 times so it takes up the whole homepage). It's just some dodgy website.
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    Re: Facebook and long like statuses?

    Quote Originally Posted by nibbler View Post
    Newest one is a stupid site called I'm Awesome!!(except written about 1000 times so it takes up the whole homepage). It's just some dodgy website.
    Yeah I noticed that too. Looks rather than anything malicious to just be a site that you can "like". Most people i've spoken to said they liked it as they thought it was funny... either way it's annoying and facebook needs to implement a limit on the title length.

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    Re: Facebook and long like statuses?

    i had a link stating "a real hot photo of you" message come through from my sister lol...of course im not stupid enough to click the link lol
    Quote Originally Posted by TAKTAK View Post
    It was so small that mine wouldn't fit into it

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