A new batch of Facebook viruses is currently annoying thousands of users of the social network. One of these pests is spreading through the link: http://youtube.torrent-galaxy.in/

Seems like Facebook agreed with our report yesterday on the spam generated by the Poll application and decided to step in by deleting all public polls it published to profiles and pages. This is bad news for its developer, but the huge amount of unintentional wall posts was really an annoyance to both users of the application and users of Facebook in general.

There appears to be a flaw a new feature in the third party Poll application, causing newly created polls and quizzes to be unintentionally shared (read: spammed) all across one’s friends’ profiles and pages.

Click on Privacy Settings, go to Block Users… In the name box, enter “Automation Labs”…

Wired has a wiki article on how to Un-Facebook_Yourself or in other words: how to avoid becoming too social. Ignoring the more drastic possibility of permanently deleting your Facebook account, you basically have two options…

If Facebook’s new privacy settings confuse you, check out this video tutorial in which security software and hardware vendor, Sophos, walks you through the newest options and shares tips on how to make your profile more private and secure.

We broke the news about the upcoming privacy controls for profile posts well before Mark Zuckerberg told the world, because we were actually already seeing them. And today we found a new pop-up informing users about the new feature, so it looks like testing is almost over and they’re close to revealing the lock icon to the public.

Facebook application developers, Candytech, have discovered a security hole, or rather privacy issue, with the status tagging feature that was introduced in September. After launching the feature, Facebook updated the “Friends” section to show friends pending a confirmation…

What happens to people’s Facebook profiles when they pass away? At the request of friends or family, a profile can become “memorialized”. Memorialized profiles can become a place where people save and share memories of those who’ve passed, and these accounts will no longer show under the (reconnect) suggestions, or other areas where references to the deceased would be delicate.

Facebook posted a video today called “What Happens If I Ignore a Friend Request?” in which they explain how to manage your friend requests and your Facebook Friend List. The video answers a frequently asked question when it comes to the rejection of a friend request.

Major uproar last weekend when upcoming MI6-boss, Sir John Sawers, got exposed on Facebook by his wife. Details such as their London address, the whereabouts of their three children, holiday beach photos, etc. were disclosed on her profile which was accessible to any of the 200 million Facebook users that were part or joined the London network.

Today’s phishing site that is spreading around Facebook through messages is silvertag.be (we recommend against visiting that site). The URL shows a fake login form that looks almost exactly like the one on Facebook.com, but when a user submits his or her e-mail and password, instead of logging into Facebook the site will automatically spam all his or her contacts with the same URL.

A new Facebook phising scam in the form of a fake Facebook login page has emerged yesterday and it’s making ten thousands of victims. When you enter your username and password at the identical-looking login form at fbaction.net, your account will immediately be hijacked, your password changed and all your friends will receive an e-mail from you with a link to the same fake login page causing the propagation of this scam to grow exponentially.

Worm and virus creators tend to target large user communities to increase the odds of infection. They make no exception for Facebook. I just received a “Facebook webmail” from the “Facebook Inform Center” (e-mail address: administrator45@facebook.com) which has virus written all over it. As you can see, the built-in phishing detector of Windows Live Mail marked it as suspicious immediately.