Thursday, December 22, 2011

Easy ways to remove Spam from facebook | The News Tribe - By: Sanna Nasser Sheikh




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http://www.thenewstribe.com/2011/12/16/easy-ways-to-remove-spam-from-facebook/#.PrDsAF1LYwd

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Karachi: In these days the porn video irritates so many people on Facebook. It has been automatically appeared on your friend’s walls.
In such away you are astonished what’s your friends posing on your wall. If you click once on the link it will be automatically appeared on your friend’s wall. This is a virus or so called spam with a somewhat nude picture.
The virus is the following posts, which has a tag line dare to check this bizarre. Peeps, it’s really irritating.



How this Spam Works:
Firstly clicking on the link will spam your friend’s wall with the link with your name and then it will send you to the page which is quite similar to the mention here. Afterwards it will ask you to install an extension in Chrome or if you are using Firefox then it will ask you to install some plugin for the video.

How to control over This Spam:

For Firefox Users:
Step 1: The first step should be to open browser > Click on Options > Select Addons or Press Ctrl+Shift+A


Step 2: Click Remove button beside YouTube Extension or anything like it.



Step 3: Reopen the browser after doing this

For Chrome Users:
Step 1: Open Browser > Click on Spanner Icon (settings) > Tools > Extensions



After completing the above steps just to make it sure you should delete all the existing cookies and caches of the browsers.


Prevention of Spam posts on Wall:
For avoiding of such spam  or porn videos you should not click on this sort of links or videos instead report them as spam. Until the spam has been taken care of properly it is suggested that everyone should disable the option where others can make posts on timeline. In order to block this facility for all those in the friends list, follow the instructions given below:

Open Privacy settings > How you connect > who can post on your timeline > Change it to “Only Me”
It really works to avoid such type of spam.

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