With the increasing popularity of Facebook, malware is also becoming increasingly raging on Facebook.
It spreads through links that contain malicious code or lead to malicious websites that people post on your wall. Unfortunately, most Facebook users may not know it or care about it.
Here are three useful apps developed from well-known security vendors that will help protect your Facebook account, even when you’re not logged in.
1. Bitdefender Safego
This Facebook application protects you from malicious links and closes connections that hackers can exploit into your account. The application scans items posted on the wall, sharing status and assesses account privacy by visual level.
Go to Here then press Application Access> click Allow to approve the application’s connection request to your account. Bitdefender Safego will automatically perform its task, which can take several minutes. Complete, the test results table will appear with many interesting information.
Look at the Infected items and Latest scanned items tables, which are a bunch of dangerous sharing links and “dirty” comments in the home wall posts that the app detects. The Statistics section shows the entries, links that have been scanned, and the number of infected items found. In the Privacy section, display your account status in an intuitive color scale.
2. Norton Safe Web
The application is capable of scanning all links posted on your News Feed page within 24 hours of prior use. In particular, you can let automatic scans using the application’s quite useful Auto-Scan feature.
The application is capable of scanning all links posted on your News Feed page within 24 hours of prior use. In particular, you can let automatic scans using the application’s quite useful Auto-Scan feature.
Use the application at “Target =” _ blank “> Address, then make the connection procedure. The checking process is very fast, the scanning link and its evaluation results are shown in the items: Norton Secured (clean article), Safe (safe article), Caution (the article is suspicious, need to be careful), Warning (the article contains harmful links, should not open), Untested (not yet To see what the article is, open the corresponding tabs below, and next to each post will be a rating icon for you to identify.
If you want the app to automatically check your home wall when you’re not using Facebook, drag the button to the left to enter Auto-Scan On under Your account is currently protected by Norton Auto-Scan.
3. ESET Social Media Scanner
Ngoài chức năng kiểm tra (tường nhà, trang cá nhân, tin nhắn), ứng dụng sẽ gửi email thông báo những thay đổi đáng ngờ xuất hiện trên tài khoản để bạn có những hành động ngăn chặn kịp thời.
Access and use the application Here and then perform the connection procedure. The testing process with ESET Social Media Scanner takes a bit longer (only a few minutes) compared to the above applications. The test results will appear in the Status section of the Scanning History tab. Although not listed in detail, the app has a very useful notification function, open the Settings tab to use. Here, click on the option you want to set at:
– Access rights notifications: Set up notifications about account access (Notify me by email about access permissions)
– Statistics: Statistics of scans performed during the week and infected, suspected objects found (Post notification).
– Automatic Scanning: Includes Post notification comments under infected or suspicious objects, Get notified by email when a threat is found find). After each setting is made, click the Save changes button to save.
