Facebook Launches Malware Checkpoints for Users with Infected Computers - clyburnnotle1973

Facebook on Tuesday launched a feature that allows users to lock Down their Facebook accounts and execute malware scans if they suspect that their computers might be infected.

Facebook already uses intrinsic scanners to detect Spam and malicious messages that mightiness have been transmitted from user accounts hijacked by malware.

When found, such accounts are temporarily locked down and their owners are asked to go through a multi-stride account recovery process that involves downloading and flying a malware scanner known as McAfee Scan and Resort.

The new "malware checkpoints" feature will allow users who believe their computers mightiness be infected with malware to pundit the account lockdown procedure themselves and perform an antivirus skim for footloose.

Users bequeath be fit to choose to scan their computers with McAfee Scan and Repair, a run-once opposed-malware image scanner, or with Microsoft Security Essentials, a full-featured antivirus production that must be downloaded and installed.

"If you are preoccupied that your device may bear been infected away malware, you can confab http://on.fb.me/infectedMSE or http://on.fb.me/infectedMcA to be self-enrolled in either our Microsoft Security Essentials or McAfee Scan and Repair malware checkpoints," Facebook's security department team said in a blog put up.

The malware checkpoint lineament will allow users to act proactively and not await for Facebook's automated scanners to identify a threat, the surety team said.

If users choose the McAfee Scan and Resort checkpoint they North Korean won't be able to unlock their account until the malware scan, whose progress is displayed on Facebook's website, is complete.

However, if users pick out the Microsoft Security Essentials option they must manually certify, aside checking a box along the website, that they downloaded, installed and performed a scan with the antivirus program before their account is unlocked.

Mackintosh Bone X users will be presented with a link to a page on Apple's support web site from where they can download security updates and malware removal tools released by Apple.

However, they hindquarters besides separately download the out-of-school Sophos Anti-Computer virus for Mac Home Version from the AV Marketplace that Facebook launched in April.

"We hope that by making our engineering available to more users, on demand, will serve every the hoi polloi who use our service keep their data and devices secure," the Facebook security team up said.