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Sarah Perez, ReadWriteWeb
Fri, 10/30/2009 - 6:00pm

How to Avoid Malware on Facebook and Twitter: 8 Best Practices

Thanks to the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, it's a given that malicious hackers will devise ways to exploit the sites' numerous users in order to infect their computers with malware. This unwanted software is designed to do a number of terrible things ranging from identity theft to turning computer into remote-controllable "zombie" machines.

 

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