Good news for all Facebook users. Social networking site whose popularity is growing shining will share internet security software free of charge.

This is thanks to the cooperation that has been woven pembesut Facebook with anti-virus, McAfee. McAfee anti-virus will be available to all Facebook members across the world, numbering around 350 million people.

The whole Facebook users can get Internet Security Software from McAfee Suite provided free of charge for six months, and thereafter will get a special discount to subscribe. However, no mention of how many special discounts are offered.

Security software is available in McAfee’s Facebook fan page. Besides Facebook McAfee also install software to identify the infected user’s computer, and then suggest the user to clean the computer before proceeding to access Facebook.

“By embracing McAfee, we made a step forward to make the Internet safer and minimize the threats that may terrorize our services,” said Elliot Schrage, Vice President of Global Communications, Marketing and Public Policy Facebook.

Indeed the current social networking sites like Facebook vulnerable to become coveted ‘ignorant hands’ of the virtual dedemit, for example, to send a virus attack, or spam messages (junk messages).

Con artists also use Facebook’s popularity to launch a phishing trap by making the user personal data.

Facebook announced, McAfee security software will be available initially for all members of Facebook in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, France, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. While for other countries will soon follow throughout the first quarter of this year.

It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people around the world are using Facebook to share their lives online.

To make this possible, we have focused on giving you the tools you need to share and control your information. Starting with the very first version of Facebook five years ago, we’ve built tools that help you control what you share with which individuals and groups of people. Our work to improve privacy continues today.

Facebook’s current privacy model revolves around “networks” — communities for your school, your company or your region. This worked well when Facebook was mostly used by students, since it made sense that a student might want to share content with their fellow students.

Over time people also asked us to add networks for companies and regions as well. Today we even have networks for some entire countries, like India and China.

However, as Facebook has grown, some of these regional networks now have millions of members and we’ve concluded that this is no longer the best way for you to control your privacy. Almost 50 percent of all Facebook users are members of regional networks, so this is an important issue for us. If we can build a better system, then more than 100 million people will have even more control of their information.

The plan we’ve come up with is to remove regional networks completely and create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone.

We’re adding something that many of you have asked for — the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload. In addition, we’ll also be fulfilling a request made by many of you to make the privacy settings page simpler by combining some settings. If you want to read more about this, we began discussing this plan back in July.

Since this update will remove regional networks and create some new settings, in the next couple of weeks we’ll ask you to review and update your privacy settings. You’ll see a message that will explain the changes and take you to a page where you can update your settings. When you’re finished, we’ll show you a confirmation page so you can make sure you chose the right settings for you. As always, once you’re done you’ll still be able to change your settings whenever you want.

We’ve worked hard to build controls that we think will be better for you, but we also understand that everyone’s needs are different. We’ll suggest settings for you based on your current level of privacy, but the best way for you to find the right settings is to read through all your options and customize them for yourself. I encourage you to do this and consider who you’re sharing with online.

Thanks for being a part of making Facebook what it is today, and for helping to make the world more open and connected.

Mark Zuckerberg

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More than 11,000 names listed in a Facebook page titled ‘National Campaign to Save the City of Jeddah’.

Page created on the site facebook Arabic version was followed by tens of thousands of protesters from Saudi Arabia. They all jumped into Facebok after 103 people died in floods that occurred in the Hajj season.

Via Facebook protest was aimed at the Saudi government is considered to be the party guilty of such casualties. Facebook chosen because the path of protest banned in this country.

In the pages that facebook site, tersalurkanlah all complaints, criticisms and opinions Saudis responded that drainage damage caused deadly flooding.

The government judged guilty because they do not fix the construction of irrigation. Some even accused the authorities of corruption for funds should be used to repair it.

A total of 200 images and videos have been publish by protesters who formed a group on Thursday. Many of those who ask for some officials to be fired.

“People want to express their feelings about this,” said Riyadh al-Zahrani, supervisor of the protest campaign. He also added that this group was created to unite the community and organizing volunteers to underline just how serisunya situation.

Deadly floods that occurred in the middle of the pilgrimage season is of concern because it coincides with the millions of Muslims from around the world across the city to Jeddah to Mecca and Medina.

Facebook security hole exploited in certain parties to spread their sexy female picture link. According to AVG anti-virus, no sexy pictures are worm CSRF (Cross-Site Request forgery), which spreads through the wall of the Facebook users.

This worm tangible like an ad with a picture of bikini-clad women. ‘Want something hot? Click on this button, honey, “the writings contained in seductive ads.

However, if tempted to click it, the picture on the wall would be Facebook users. To stop this problem, the AVG claimed only Facebook can do.

Lucky in a short time, the Facebook managed to stop the circulation of the offending images. So far, no other adverse effects were reported in addition to the circulation of the photograph on the wall the Facebook user.

Responding to this problem, the image denies Facebook worm but it is a form of clickjacking. According to Facebook spokesperson, Simon Axten, not many Facebook users are affected by this problem.

“Overall, the percentage of affected users is small,” claims Axten.

Since posting photos while on the beach to Facebook, Nathalie Blanchard had to lose because the insurance would no longer pay for health benefits. A Canadian woman was caught smiling happily in these photos.

It turned out that Blanchard was in the treatment of depression he suffered. In addition to a long leave of absence from his job at IBM, he was also entitled to receive a monthly medical allowance of insurer Manulife.

Well, the insurance company apparently caught Blanchard pictures at the beach, which looked very happy, far from the impression of depression. He looked so happy sunbathing and dancing. From here, Manulife rate that Blanchard had recovered its customers to stop payment on it.

Manulife refused to explain details of this incident. “We will not avoid or stop a valid claim is solely based on information published on sites like Facebook,” the statement Manulife.

But they acknowledge that the information from Facebook and related resources, are often used to study the clients.