The “Facebook Virus” phenomenon is becoming one of the biggest concerns for users who love social blue. Given the large catchment area present on this social network, criminals have concentrated on creating deceptive links, advertising with traps and games with malware included.
If you've run into a Facebook virus, don't worry: in this guide we will show you how to clean up your PC and how to avoid future infections with the right tools.
Virus Facebook
Pulitura browser
If the virus has infected your browser, just delete your profile on Chrome and Firefox to get everything back to normal. In these cases, the sooner you act, the sooner you avoid ugly surprises.
To reset your profile on Google Chrome on Windows just reach the following path.
% LOCALAPPDATA% GoogleChromeUser Data
Locate the “Default” subfolder in the folder and / or (in the case of an assigned profile) the subfolders with the name “Profile”.
We delete the folders to eliminate any traces of infected profiles. Upon restart, Chrome will recreate a new Default folder with all Chrome settings reset.
For Firefox, on the other hand, it is sufficient to open the profile manager using the command (which can be launched from WIN + R).
firefox -p
Delete old profiles with the button Eliminate profilo and restart with a new clean profile using the key Create profile.
NOTE: : if you do not have profiles synchronized with your Google account or with your Firefox account, you will lose the bookmarks, history and extensions installed on the browsers.
Remove Facebook apps and games
If the threat came through a Facebook app or game, we can remove all traces of the added app or scam game by following the official procedure recommended by Facebook itself.
LINK | Remove apps and games
Clean your PC of common malware
Has the Facebook virus left no escape for the PC? We can remedy this by using the best malware cleaning tools currently available out there.
For proper cleaning of any type of malware I recommend using our dedicated guide.
If, on the other hand, we see strange windows appear on the PC or advertisements we can remedy this with our guide to removing adware and spyware.
Clean your PC of ransomware
If our PC suddenly freezes with a screen asking us for a ransom to "free" the PC or the encrypted files, we have caught one of the dangerous ransomware. Don't worry: for most of them there is a solution, just use the tools made AD HOC to remove these threats and recover the files.
Protect your PC and Facebook from future attacks
We have cleaned up the PC but are we afraid for our future safety? It takes very little to avoid an infection these days, as well as a healthy dose of common sense.
For example, we can add extensions to browsers to improve the safety of browsing on both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
In addition we can choose a new free antivirus among the best available on the market.
Facebook virus: how to remove them and avoid infections
