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Security Protection - Harry Waldron (CS)

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Facebook - Major Spam Attacks during Thanksgiving holidays

The "Who viewed your profile" and other major spam campaigns were prominent during the Thanksgiving holiday period.  None of these messages are true and they will post muliple messages on the facebook wall for those who click on these links and install these hostile applications 

F-Secure: Happy Spamgiving Day
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002068.html
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002071.html
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002070.html
http://www.pc1news.com/news/1611/do-not-click-on-facebook-scam-message-twin-sister-inside-belly.html

QUOTE: It's Thanksgiving Day in the United States and most folks are probably at home with their families right now. But somebody at Facebook security is probably on the job, because we're observing various spam runs on the site. Spammers are probably timing their efforts in an attempt to take advantage of holiday surfers. This spammer is having a very successful holiday weekend; his public stream now shows a total of more than 686,000 clicks!