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Dr Hobbitstein

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4. You did not get a virus from facebook or it's avertisers.

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 04:30 PM

Mar 2017

You may have gotten it by clicking a nefarious link someone posted (which is a risk you run clicking blind links posted on any site), but you most certainly did not get it from Facebook.

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I got a computer virus from Facebook! [View all] CTyankee Mar 2017 OP

It is probably one of their advertisers flyingfysh Mar 2017 #1

I'll ask the computer guy if it is the ads. Thanks for the tip... CTyankee Mar 2017 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author Dr Hobbitstein Mar 2017 #3

You did not get a virus from facebook or it's avertisers. Dr Hobbitstein Mar 2017 #4

Install Facebook Purity to eliminate all sorts of nasty stuff (i.e., ads, etc.) on FB CurtEastPoint Mar 2017 #5

I think my computer guy will probably do that. I trust him to clear up my computer CTyankee Mar 2017 #6

Install an ad blocker and don't click on anything on fb. MADem Mar 2017 #7