The Fan Check Virus

I have spent hours looking over this information and this is what I found:

We believe that this is merely a two part hoax: on one hand, you have a defunct application that allegedly lets you see who’s been visiting your Facebook profile – which cannot work due to Facebook’s policies, and all applications claiming to do so are scams. On the other, spammers and malicious hackers are feeding the rumors around this application to lead people to search for a solution, and getting their computers infected by malware in return.

This alleged virus has only been described on a couple of blogs, such as this one, but we’ve found no reports about it on sites of security firms such as McAfee or Symantec.

Source: mashable.com


ZOMFG! Another Facebook Virus!!! This time, it's a Facebook Fan Check application virus, attacking everyone who's using Fan Check to see who's visiting their pages. Whoah, whoah, whoah- hold yer horses there, Tex: chances are there's no virus. That's because Fan Check itself is BS. The ancient app never worked in the first place, and would violate Facebook's TOS even if it did. Which it didn't.
A few blogs have picked up this rumor (dare I say Truemor? I dare!), but no reputable security site has even mentioned it once. However, beware of so-called virus-fix sites, as they tend to bear evil gifts of... malware! Yup, the ol' switcheroo.
So, if you're still using Fan Check, then slap yourself in the face before uninstalling, but don't worry about malware.
At least not this time.

source:http://www.nowpublic.com/

Facebook Fan Check Virus scare leads to malware
Beware of Googling (or indeed Yahooing or Binging or using any other internet search engine) for information about something called "Facebook Fan Check Virus", as you're likely to end up on a website hosting malicious code.

Read this too:

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/09/07/facebook-fan-check-virus-scare-leads-malware/