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Facebook Inc has blocked users from accessing the NBC.com website following reports that the site is infected with a computer virus.

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.

Five security alerts are issued for Facebook as security firms say social networking sites are tempting targets for hackers.