#profile viewer

[technowake]

Pixwox Instagram profile viewer

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Pixwox is an Instagram viewer that streamlines the process of browsing Instagram stories, keeping up with people's postings, and quickly dow

[cathorine2022]

Instagram Profile Viewer | Get Free Instagram Impression and Engagement ...

[thepennilesssitarplayer]

Hit Counter and Profile Viewer

uhm so I changed my url, but my hit counter and the thing that says how many ppl are viewing yer profile still work....

I find this counterintuitive

Is this something I should worry abt randomly ceasing to work at some point?

[privacyandsecurity]

New Facebook Notes Profile Viewer Scam

Over the last few months, I along with other security researchers have observed Facebook scammers tinkering with new ways to push their scams out to the masses. Today, I came across a new method, this one using the Facebook "Notes" application.

The request will appear in your notification box (as seen above).

The request itself isn't coming from a fake Facebook application. It is coming from the official Facebook Notes application.

Notice that the request is piggybacking on the oft-used Facebook scam targeting "Profile Viewer" and "Profile Stalker" applications. These applications don't exist, yet the fascination with them amongst Facebook users still manages to reel some in.

If you click on the link in the request above, you are redirected to a .info site hosted outside of Facebook. 

There have been a lot of scams in circulation asking users to paste code like the one you see above into their browser windows.

Advice: You should never, ever paste any code into your browser's address bar. There really is no legitimate case where you would want to do this. If you do come across a site like this in the future, you want to be sure to close the browser tab/window and ignore the request.

This particular scam is a bit more clever than previous versions.

Pasting the code into your address bar gives the script access to more than the previous applications. In this case, it attempts to make the scam look more legitimate by displaying a list of friends/people you may know as people who have been viewing your profile.

While you wait, it's already spamming your friends through the Notes application with the same request that you received.

Once complete, the scammers then try to make money off of you by asking you to fill out a survey.

This is the same method used in most scams seen on Facebook, but with a semi-honest admission at the end:

An admission that these results are fictional is quite strange, but there is no Firefox addon that will grant you this feature on Facebook.

Statistics show that this particular scam has been viewed over 60,000 times in the last few hours. Be on the lookout for this one and please remember not to paste any code into your browser's address bar.

[privacyandsecurity]

How To Remove Facebook Scam Applications

I've been concerned about social networking users becoming targets of scam and cybercriminal activity for the last two years. Sure enough, this type of activity has surged tremendously, especially over the last few months.

Since the weekend, I've observed multiple variants of Facebook scam campaigns making the rounds, spreading quite rapidly. Being aware of these scams is an important piece to the Internet Security puzzle. The other is remediation steps and this is the goal of this post.

Example of Facebook Scam Installation Page

How To Remove Facebook Scam Applications

The Easy Way

Certain scam applications will post some type of update that will show up on your Facebook wall in order to be seen by your friends. This could be a status update or a photograph that tags your friends. Both items will end up on your Facebook wall. If you see something suspicious on your wall, you can easily remove the application.

Click on the "x" to the right of the post (appears when you mouse over it) and select "Remove Gathering" -- this will remove the application in the simplest way.

However, not all scam apps are created equal. In some cases, the scam apps don't post anything to your Facebook wall or it may not be easily visible to you. In cases such as these, you will have to click around in order to get the rogue application removed.

The "Other" Way

In order to remove a scam application that you've installed but hasn't posted to your Facebook profile, you'll need to browse to the Account menu and select Privacy Settings.

On the Privacy Settings page, at the bottom left, click on "Edit Your Settings" located under the "Apps & Websites" section:

On this page, you'll find a section called "Apps I Use" which shows the most recently used applications. The scam app is likely to appear in this list because it was recently installed and recently sought permission to access parts of your profile and make changes to it (including your Facebook photo album).

If you mouse over the application (called "Gathering" in this case), you'll see a pencil icon appear. Click here to find out the permissions the app has been granted as well as the link to Remove the application entirely.

Select "Remove app" and you will be prompted with a dialog to confirm the removal of this application.

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