Mattresses Facebook Malware Protection

Facebook has cemented a new partnership to protect its users against malicious links posted on their walls, new son, and other places in the social network. You know, these links from someone you have not seen for years, to encourage you to click on the images of how "WAZ you sooo mad at the party last night" or some of them. Click one and you could offer all sorts of nasty things to your account and even your hard drive.

Facebook will now use Websense to suppress a little tighter, adding the company "Advanced Classification Engine" on the rear end. When a user clicks on a link in Facebook, it is the ACE, who lives in the clouds, and is constantly new threats. If the CAE has already classified the site as a threat, it sends a warning to the user.

ACE is the same technology behind TRITON security suite used by many companies, so it's fast enough to return to new bugs and malicious campaigns and rank, but that does not mean it will be fast enough to catch all the bad link on Facebook, until a few users to click.

A link that goes viral is a social network can often spread faster than any other - and the link to the virus when it also happens to be the access of the virus to the list of friends and reset itself without your permission, may soon to be found anywhere. The good news is, the faster it spreads, the faster the ACE are likely to collect and classify it as miserable.

Facebook hopes that with the addition of a new security partnership with the current arsenal of defense to reduce the window of vulnerability - the time between when a threat to the cultivation, and when it was identified, cataloged, and the warnings go out.

Facebook was not completely naked, before integrating the Websense service. It has its own security systems, and has developed deals with the likes of McAfee in the past. Websense has also provided the Facebook application called Defensio, which provides filtering and control the content posted on the walls of the Users', for some time.

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