Using Protection - Facebook Protection

Sunday, 01 May 2011 23:39

PCmag.com recently reviewed Using Protection.  PCmag gives it 3/5 stars.  The program is designed to catch spam and malware within Facebook.

From the Article:

Using Protection disables any bad link it finds and inserts its own link stating "SPAM DETECTED" or "VIRUS DETECTED." Clicking the link creates a wall post that says you've found a virus on your wall and invites your friends to sign up for Using Protection. Here, again, you can modify or skip the message. For example, if the virus it found was actually on another friend's page you could change it to say "I found a virus on Lance's Facebook wall."

Using Protection doesn't gain access to your Facebook account. You don't have to worry about whether you're giving it too many permissions. It's an add-on to the browser, not to Facebook. That means it will be active for anybody who logs on to Facebook using the protected browser.