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Facebook opens Anti-virus download shop to broaden security resources
By Tim Conneally
2012-25-04
Popular social network Facebook has partnered with security vendors Symantec, McAfee, Microsoft, Sophos, and Trend Micro in a program to simultaneously improve Facebook's security and broaden the availability of the antivirus software from each of the partners.
Since 2008, Facebook has kept a URL blacklist, and any time a Facebook user posts a link to one of the blacklisted URL, Facebook pops up an interstitial warning page before the browser actually connects off to the suspicious destination. Facebook's parters in this effort included McAfee, Google, Web of Trust, and Websense.
With the partnerships announced today, Facebook's URL blacklist system will include the malicious URL databases of all of the security vendors.
More details: http://betanews.com/...rity-resources/
By Tim Conneally
2012-25-04
Popular social network Facebook has partnered with security vendors Symantec, McAfee, Microsoft, Sophos, and Trend Micro in a program to simultaneously improve Facebook's security and broaden the availability of the antivirus software from each of the partners.
Since 2008, Facebook has kept a URL blacklist, and any time a Facebook user posts a link to one of the blacklisted URL, Facebook pops up an interstitial warning page before the browser actually connects off to the suspicious destination. Facebook's parters in this effort included McAfee, Google, Web of Trust, and Websense.
With the partnerships announced today, Facebook's URL blacklist system will include the malicious URL databases of all of the security vendors.
More details: http://betanews.com/...rity-resources/
