My Mom's facebook account was somehow compromised and it posted these links ending in .tk to all of her friends walls, saying to go to this link to check out this video.
I am scanning her computer with a few programs, but I don't think its that likely that her actual computer is compromised, as that just the facebook account is and it is somehow hijacked with some fake application or whatever she clicked on (She said she click on a weird link within facebook.)
I changed the password and deactivated the facebook account, but I'm not really sure that is going to even effect the actual facebook account being compromised by a application or some other facebook thing. I check her account before deactivating it, and there don't seem to be any applications, or any thing else that is granted any permissions to her facebook account, however I;m not exactly sure how to confirm this.
I have her using another computer, while I check her computer for a while, but In terms of the actual facebook account, once we Reactivate, how can we check to make sure it is clean of some backdoor or application that is allowing it to be compromised?
This is pretty weird because of all this integration with application and whatever crap facebook has on its site, that it seems a account can be compromised even if the computer it is being accessed is not. Is there a way to disable any automated access from any application or service that can access your facebook account other than someone actually logging into it with a browser?
Does it seems likely that somehow people were just able to control her account at one particular time, or that they somehow got her password, but that to me implies that the computer is compromised, which I am still checking but find pretty unlikely, as its pretty secure.
I am scanning her computer with a few programs, but I don't think its that likely that her actual computer is compromised, as that just the facebook account is and it is somehow hijacked with some fake application or whatever she clicked on (She said she click on a weird link within facebook.)
I changed the password and deactivated the facebook account, but I'm not really sure that is going to even effect the actual facebook account being compromised by a application or some other facebook thing. I check her account before deactivating it, and there don't seem to be any applications, or any thing else that is granted any permissions to her facebook account, however I;m not exactly sure how to confirm this.
I have her using another computer, while I check her computer for a while, but In terms of the actual facebook account, once we Reactivate, how can we check to make sure it is clean of some backdoor or application that is allowing it to be compromised?
This is pretty weird because of all this integration with application and whatever crap facebook has on its site, that it seems a account can be compromised even if the computer it is being accessed is not. Is there a way to disable any automated access from any application or service that can access your facebook account other than someone actually logging into it with a browser?
Does it seems likely that somehow people were just able to control her account at one particular time, or that they somehow got her password, but that to me implies that the computer is compromised, which I am still checking but find pretty unlikely, as its pretty secure.