3 'Scanners' for viruses and malware for Facebook

With the growing popularity of Facebook, malware is also becoming increasingly rampant on Facebook.

It spreads through links that contain malicious code or lead to malicious websites that people send on your wall. Unfortunately the majority of Facebook users may not know about it or care about this.

Here are three useful apps developed from well-known security firms that will help protect your Facebook account, even if you're not logged in.

Bitdefender Safego

This Facebook application protects you from malicious links and closes connections that hackers can exploit into your account. The application scans the posted items on the wall, the status of sharing and assessing the level of account privacy according to each level of visualization.

Go here and then click Access application > press Allow application approval request to your account . Bitdefender Safego will automatically perform its duties, this process may take several minutes. Completed, the test results table will appear with lots of interesting information.

Looking at Infected items and Latest scanned items, there are a series of dangerous sharing links and 'dirty' comments in the wall posts that the application finds. At the Statistics section displays the items, scanned links and the number of infected items found. In the Privacy section, show your account status according to the visual color scale.

Norton Safe Web

The application is capable of scanning all links posted on your News Feed page within 24 hours of prior use. In particular, you can automatically scan using the useful Auto-Scan feature of the application.

Use the application at the address , then perform the connection procedure. The inspection process is very fast, the links scanned and its evaluation results are shown in the following items: Norton Secured (clean article), Safe (safe article), Caution (article belongs to Suspicious, cautious), Warning (posts containing malicious links, should not be opened), Untested (not yet checked). To see what kind of article you have, open the corresponding tags below. Next to each article will have a rating icon for you to know.

If you want the application to automatically check your home wall when not using Facebook, drag the left button to enter the Auto-Scan On status at Your account is currently protected by Norton Auto-Scan.

ESET Social Media Scanner

In addition to the test function (home wall, personal page, message), the application will send an email informing suspicious changes that appear on your account so you can take timely preventive actions.

Access and use the application here and then perform the connection procedure. Testing with ESET Social Media Scanner takes a bit longer (just a few minutes) compared to the above applications. The test results will be displayed in the Status section in the Scanning History tab. Although not listed in detail, but the application has a very useful notification function, open the Settings tab to use. Here, you click on the option you want to set up in the sections:

- Access rights notifications: Set up notifications about account access (Notify me by email about access permissions)

- Statistics: Statistics of the number of scans performed in the week and the infected, suspected objects found (Post notification).

- Automatic Scanning: Includes Post notification comments under infected or suspicious objects (Send notification of infected or suspicious objects), Get notified by email when a found threat (Receive email notifications when there is a threat find). After each setting is done, click the Save changes button saved.