Here's the second screen I see if I click 'Get Started' on the one shown above.
Surprisingly, it IS legit. If Facebook detects a strange pattern of behavior it'll prompt you for a scan.
Yeah, looks like it's legit. I still wouldn't do it, though. I have my own software for that.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/making-malware-cleanup-easier/10152050305685766/
ridski said:
Yeah, looks like it's legit. I still wouldn't do it, though. I have my own software for that.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/making-malware-cleanup-easier/10152050305685766/
Facebook won't let me continue without doing it. (So if it IS legit, then I'll do it, but I wanted to be sure.)
don't do it. These online scanners typically case more problems than they cure. And they will try and upsell you other services.
peteglider said:
don't do it. These online scanners typically case more problems than they cure. And they will try and upsell you other services.
Too late ... I went ahead and did it, but it didn't turn up anything. I've changed my password and am hoping for the best.
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I suddenly received a "you need to login" popup message from Facebook and pressed enter on the login (prefilled by my password manager) without thinking. But then when I started to navigate Facebook, I was presented with the main login screen. It occurred to me that I shouldn't be doing this so then I went to my phone and changed my Facebook password there. But when I logged onto Facebook on my computer again I got the same thing. After logging in, I see these screens in sequence. Is Facebook really helping me with some malware here or are these screens the malware?
(As we speak, I am running a malwarebytes scan on my computer. It hasn't detected anything so far, but is not done yet.)