10 Tips to avoid FaceBook Hackers and Viruses

With over 300 million FaceBook users actively using FaceBook, it has become the new area for hackers to spread viruses and steal your account information.

Below are some tips to avoid becoming a victim.

1. Install Anti Virus and keep it up to date. AVG is the most reliable for Social Media.
2. At the moment all viruses are spread via Facebook email and Wall posts.
3. If you see numerous friends posting the same message with links then contact them off FaceBook and warn them that their FaceBook account may have been compromised.
4. Do not open a link telling you to go to a YouTube video with a link that uses http://bit.ly . YouTube have their own link shortener http://youtu.be .
5. If a message from a friend does not sound like them. It probably is not them. Delete the message and let your friend know of the message.
6. If your account does have a virus, run a virus checker and then change your Facebook password.
7. If you have completed step 5, then email all of your FaceBook friends to let them now and suggest these tips to them. The more vigilant we are against this the less likely FaceBook will be targeted.
8. If you click a link and are asked to log back into FaceBook DON’T. This is a common tactic to steal your login details.
9. If you add people to your account that you do not know and they send you a message stating that you are in a video or pic etc then remember that they do not know you. This will be a virus.
10. Join our FanPage for the most up to date information about new viruses and FaceBook threats along with the best solution to rectify the problem.

Net Mania Fan Page is at http://facebook.com/NetMania or by using the FaceBook URL shortener http://fb.me/NetMania .

FaceBook vanity URL’s

It has been a number of months since FaceBook released vanity URL’s (your name in the URL) for personal pages and then to Groups and Fan Pages. An example is our FaceBook Fan Page at http://www.facebook.com/NetMania .

Initially a FanPage or group required 1000 members or fans to be eligible for a vanity URL.

Sometime later FaceBook publicly announced that it had reduced the limit to 100 users. Both requirements caused many small organisations to cry out and ask for the requirements to be reduced.

FaceBook without any major publicity announcements changed the criteria to a minimum of 25 members or fans thus creating new opportunities for millions of Fan Pages and groups.

Now many admins and would be creators of groups and Fan Pages are asking how to obtain their new vanity URL.

Simply log into FaceBook and then visit http://www.faceBook.com/username or as we mentioned in our earlier post http://fb.me/username .