I have no idea how so few people are not concerned that Facebook has allowed Zynga’s Farmville to steal and sell users personal data?!? Probably because its all in the background and nobody has seen any direct harm from it. Well now your personal data has been sold. It should not come as a huge shock I mean you share it for the whole world to see anyway. But there are some of us who use facebook to actually stay in touch with distant friend and not just use it for self promotion.
Now to make things worse among the virus spam you get from facebook we now have to content with a Trojan Horse called boonana. This is a cross platform virus that effects both windows and macintosh users. This Trojan horse malware that affects Mac OS X has been uncovered by Macintosh Security site SecureMac. The Trojan is called “trojan.osx.boonana.a” and is being disguised as a video and distributed through social-networking sites including Facebook.
This trojan is currently appearing as a link in messages with the subject “Is this you in this video?” When you click the infected link, the trojan initially runs as a Java applet, which downloads other files to your computer, including an installer, which launches automatically. When run, the installer modifies the system files to bypass the need for passwords, allowing outside access to all files on the system.
Its been a long time since something like this has come to the Macintosh community. And we see it come to us from the likes of facebook. The longevity of facebook is a puzzle. They think they are all high and mighty. Well I am sure Myspace felt that way also. Facebook is very small considering that Zynga is just as large and or larger and has all the money. Facebook is just the network. If they are not careful they will be replaced by the next networking site. Hopefully one that does not allow so many third parties to gum up the works.
The writing is on the wall for facebook.
