Now there were all sorts of warning signs to inform that not to click this link. Most remarkably, I have not seen this friend in person for more than 20 years. Even though there are so many videos out there of me substitute the fool, all have been in use in the past ten years. Secondly, there might be a video out there of me trying a tutu and dancing in a vat of three week ago cottage cheese though reciting the Gettysburg address (I’m not saying one way or the other) and I am still not a close up sufficient friend to this person for them to think about enough to place the video to Face book. But still, I hesitated.
What could have happened if I click the link? The page it takes me to would have in secret forced me to like the video as fine. That video could have exposed up on my page. Additional friends would have clicked it. At least amount it would be irritating, at maximum there could be unseen malicious scripts hiding, pending to infect my computer. (frogbones) This perform is known as ‘Like Jacking’. System safety experts Symantec estimate to facilitate up to 15% of ALL videos posted on Facebook scams.
Even with the awesome proof that this link was a scam, I still had to refuse to accept the urge to click the link. Why? It’s a human nature. We desire to see what people post about us. Scammers are not anything if not students of human nature. They victim on the very aspects of humanity that produce temptation. We desire to see that evidently secret video of Charlie Sheen in deep and logical reflection at church.
Up waiting freshly, the simply way to prevent human nature from attractive its due course was to simply scream “DON’T CLICK THAT” to anyone in earshot (including yourself). Now, the antivirus and protection peoples at Norton have released an app to facilitate circumvent human nature and prevents individual’s posts from ever making it to your Facebook wall.