Hacking Facebook
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Angelfishsolo
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It seems that certain applications carry Trojans or worms and allow back-door access to the account. Many of these are kind of obvious - "See the video of Bin Laden being shot", "A father walking in on her daughter doing this on web-cam"...... but I am sure there are many out there.
HLaB
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I've never had obscene but, I've got tons of spam from folk who I know haven't actually sent it, I think there's a lot of trojans that hijack their account.
Most of it is (tbh) less wary FB users who click stuff that they see others post without realising that they have just added it to their own wall.
There's a fair few FB apps which do that, there's little to no security risk with them but it does mark you out as a soft touch amongst your friends, the more savvy of whom will not appreciate it.
It could be that the API allows a delayed post like your father got, MrP, from clicking something yesterday evening which didn't appear until he was in bed to maximise the time it was on his wall.
There's a fair few FB apps which do that, there's little to no security risk with them but it does mark you out as a soft touch amongst your friends, the more savvy of whom will not appreciate it.
It could be that the API allows a delayed post like your father got, MrP, from clicking something yesterday evening which didn't appear until he was in bed to maximise the time it was on his wall.
My guess, and it's no more without seeing what was actually posted, is that it's a one-off.
What often (but not always!) happens is that he saw a post on someone else's wall that said, as an example, "Take a look at this video of **insert famous name** doing **insert popular pastime**" and clicked on it, thinking it was a straight-forward link.
What he actually clicked was an app which someone had created to look like a link and the app posted something on his wall.
This is one of many reasons to always check the URL (use the hover over facility) before clicking a link.
However, that's purely conjecture and it could be that someone has hacked and picked up his FB credentials. Changing the password is always a good thing to do if in any doubt.
I doubt that it's a virus, it woud be a very specific virus attack which only took over the user's FB account, so there is very little chance (again, IMO) that there's anything to clean from his machine.
What often (but not always!) happens is that he saw a post on someone else's wall that said, as an example, "Take a look at this video of **insert famous name** doing **insert popular pastime**" and clicked on it, thinking it was a straight-forward link.
What he actually clicked was an app which someone had created to look like a link and the app posted something on his wall.
This is one of many reasons to always check the URL (use the hover over facility) before clicking a link.
However, that's purely conjecture and it could be that someone has hacked and picked up his FB credentials. Changing the password is always a good thing to do if in any doubt.
I doubt that it's a virus, it woud be a very specific virus attack which only took over the user's FB account, so there is very little chance (again, IMO) that there's anything to clean from his machine.
Angelfishsolo
A Velocipedian
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- Cwmbach, South Wales
Agreed and far better explained 
My guess, and it's no more without seeing what was actually posted, is that it's a one-off.
What often (but not always!) happens is that he saw a post on someone else's wall that said, as an example, "Take a look at this video of **insert famous name** doing **insert popular pastime**" and clicked on it, thinking it was a straight-forward link.
What he actually clicked was an app which someone had created to look like a link and the app posted something on his wall.
This is one of many reasons to always check the URL (use the hover over facility) before clicking a link.
However, that's purely conjecture and it could be that someone has hacked and picked up his FB credentials. Changing the password is always a good thing to do if in any doubt.
I doubt that it's a virus, it woud be a very specific virus attack which only took over the user's FB account, so there is very little chance (again, IMO) that there's anything to clean from his machine.
Munchkin100
New Member
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- The Chilterns
I had my fb hacked a few years back, not sure how the person did it but it didnt matter what I changed the password to, HE managed to change it back. He posted stuff on my page and also made threats regarding my daughter. So reported it to the police. Its a hell of a long story but he was found and was given a written warning and thankfully he left me alone. If you know how you can hack into fb, its the easiest thing to do according to our boys in blue. I cant say too much about it as he could be lurking anywhere 
even on here
even on here
