How come everyone is saying Fancheck is a virus?

[Love]

I just ran a virus/spyware check and nothing came up, ergo.. it must be a Facebook problem, not Fancheck, correct?

[Megatron]

I'll admit that I'm not very technologically savvy, but this is what I've had explained to me.
It's not so much the application that's the virus, but that when it messes people's home pages up, people google it, and click on pages that run "virus checks" that say you have spyware or whatever, and tell you that you need to download X in order to fix it.
They think X is some sort of virus fixer or whatever, when it's actually malware.

These explain it much better than me
http://mashable.com/2009/09/07/facebook-...irus-hoax/
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/09...s-malware/

[Daz Owen]

http://mashable.com/2009/09/07/facebook-...irus-hoax/

[Lindsay G]

Works fine for me, no problems. And if there were a problem I know how to remove the infection.

[♥♪]

Its probably a virus for the site.
My facebook is messing up, but my computer seems to be okay.
Yes, a facebook problem.

Hopefully everything will be resolved. :3

[mikelepore12581]

The so-called "virus check" is an animated pop-up advertisement made to look like a virus check. It gives you a button and tells you to click it, supposedly to "fix" the virus. Don't click it! If you click it, it will now INSTALL a virus, which you didn't have before, you were just looking at an animated ad. Here's what you should do. Force your browser to close all windows by clicking control-alt-delete or whatever your operating system uses. Clear all of the computer's temporary files. Open the browser and clear its cache. Now you should be okay. Just to be extra safe I would also restart the computer.

I've seen this fake virus check ad on other sites also. I even encountered it on the science education site physicsforums.com.