By Paul Homewood
This is a warning we should all take notice of:
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/facebook-accounts-hit-malicious-ad-attack-dangerous-malware
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
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Uhhh . . . you just told us not to click on shit.
‘Practice good cyber hygiene’
The mind wanders . . . .
+1
No Facebook accou nt. No problem.
Ditto. Zuckerberg sucks.
“… NodeStealer virus, which then starts to spy on your online activity.”
That’s old news in the aspect that this is exactly what companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft and many others have been doing for years. They upload much, if not all, of available private information. If this would have been possible before Internet and in particular during the Cold War, it would have caused a huge international political crisis. Today, nobody cares …
No they do not.
How does Google Maps work?
Then you have been missing something or you are working for one of them …
@ Phoenix44 – Yes, they do:
https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/Windows10.spying.onsettings.php
https://winaero.com/stop-windows-10-spying-on-you-using-just-windows-firewall/
In fact they’ve been doing it since the later updates in Windows 7…
Well, it actually started with Windows 95, but that was nothing compared to what’s going on today.
Since Windows 10, basically all local data are transfered to MS’s own servers. Something that became obvious to me at work some years ago. I got suspicious when a Office program halted, when saving a file locally. At the same time, the WiFi was down due to enviromental disturbance.(no ethernet connection on this computer, due to the environment). When the WiFi was up and running again, no issues while saving. If this was only a one-time occurrence, I wouldn’t have bothered, but this happened everytime the WiFi was down. I started to analyse the traffic and found that this computer was communicating with computers within the MS domain. It was mostly outbound data. Shutting off the WiFi in the computer gave the same result.
Thanks for the warning, Paul. 👍
Facebook users are the “product”. However, Facebook can sometimes be the only way to find key information e.g. what time does the caff open?
You highlight the problem with social media and by association ‘smart’ phones – they can actually be useful at times. Around me there is a traffic Facebook group that has been useful for people trying to get around with a lot of flooding here at the moment. And in the same damp vein, lower level football is prone to a lot of match cancellations and X is very important for letting people know if games are on or off before you set off for matches.
Why? What is the matter with your local club running its own website and posting this information? How long does it take to log in and find whether a game is on or off?
I don’t know how private Facebook “groups” are but if they can be made secure then use them. If not, don’t. Or at least don’t complain when you are on the receiving end of unwanted messages. Whenever are we going to learn that we don’t have a clue who is reading our outpourings or what use they are going to make of them.
Our increased sophistication has dragged an increased naiveté along with it.
We have a club website that I edit. I can post up that a match has been postponed and in saving the post I can share it on social media. LOL
Thanks for the tip Paul, but don’t use FB. Never did.
Never trusted Zuckerberg after is early comments about and lack of respect for his customers and their data.
Seconded
The user agreement with Facebook gives them carte blanche over your whole private electronic data.
No sensible person should let FB spy.
Cancel, revoke, delete.
There are reports that Facebook tracks users even if the Facebook programme is closed. I don’t have the skills to check this.
Glad I’ve never joined FarceBook.
Why is anyone still on Fascistbook?
Don’t click on anything on your smartphone, either, if you don’t know what it is. Process servers are sending documents embedded in text messages (ask me how I know). With “multimedia messages,” there are probably additional nasty things that can be done.
As a mere female though one who has been online since before the turn of the century I got fed up with Microsoft updating over and over again and changing my settings. They seemed to follow me where ever I voyaged on the internet.
I finally changed to Chromebook and clear my History of sites and the many cookies which hitch a ride on the sites . I seem to do this about twice a day.
Youtube seems to be antagonised if I don’t like the same adverts everytime. I try to keep off youtube though audiobooks are good.
Can you tell me if there is anything else I can do..
I read RT and Sputnik ,Moscow Patriarchate and sites which are called rightwing like Townhall… also Breitbart as well as the news sites in New Zealand which seem to be American in outlook.
All of this makes me a suspect I expect. Well, any one who reads Babylon Bee must be suspect anyway because it doesnot take politics seriously . AND
Recently I found a site with Yes Minister episodes. Oh Dear Making fun of our masters ! I had better get off line
.But any advice would be welcome alongside clearing History and Cookies.