How to scan Facebook for suspicious links and users: Over the past few years, there have been several malware attacks on Facebook users which are as a result of posting suspicious links on user’s profile.
These suspicious links and apps will infect the user's timeline, messages, and even their friends' walls. Fortunately Norton (Our popular anti-malware application) offers a tool to help fight these threats, and it's very quick and easy to set up on your Facebook account. So read on as we will show you how to set this up and prevent spammers and malware from taking over your Facebook account.
Scan Facebook for Suspicious Links and Users
Action 1.
Follow these link to open Norton Safe Web for Facebook in your Web browser. If you're not already logged in to Facebook, please login before you proceed.
Action 2.
You must authorize permission for the Norton app to scan your account.
Action 3.
Additional permissions may be necessary to authorize Norton; don’t get bored just click the link and then authorize in the pop-up window.
Action 4.
The results for all links in your timeline will be shown on the next page that loads. If any of the link is found to be malicious, it will be marked by an X or exclamation mark (!), and you will need to take action but if you're lucky, none of the links will be malicious.
Action 5.
You can now choose to enable Norton Websafe's auto-scan if you want all new links on your wall to be checked for suspicious activity, then just click the Enable Auto-scan button and Allow the app permission, if necessary.
Sometimes your friends get infected by malware and aren't aware that they are sharing malicious links to Facebook. In this case, you should always let them know what's going on, so they can remove the malware and associated posts on their walls and the walls of others. So please let’s share this article to help prevent our account from this malware and best of all, this service is free, so why not try it out?
These suspicious links and apps will infect the user's timeline, messages, and even their friends' walls. Fortunately Norton (Our popular anti-malware application) offers a tool to help fight these threats, and it's very quick and easy to set up on your Facebook account. So read on as we will show you how to set this up and prevent spammers and malware from taking over your Facebook account.
Scan Facebook for Suspicious Links and Users
Action 1.
Follow these link to open Norton Safe Web for Facebook in your Web browser. If you're not already logged in to Facebook, please login before you proceed.
Action 2.
You must authorize permission for the Norton app to scan your account.
Action 3.
Additional permissions may be necessary to authorize Norton; don’t get bored just click the link and then authorize in the pop-up window.
Action 4.
The results for all links in your timeline will be shown on the next page that loads. If any of the link is found to be malicious, it will be marked by an X or exclamation mark (!), and you will need to take action but if you're lucky, none of the links will be malicious.
Action 5.
You can now choose to enable Norton Websafe's auto-scan if you want all new links on your wall to be checked for suspicious activity, then just click the Enable Auto-scan button and Allow the app permission, if necessary.
Sometimes your friends get infected by malware and aren't aware that they are sharing malicious links to Facebook. In this case, you should always let them know what's going on, so they can remove the malware and associated posts on their walls and the walls of others. So please let’s share this article to help prevent our account from this malware and best of all, this service is free, so why not try it out?
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