Protect Yourself on Facebook with BitDefender Safego

Users spend more time on Facebook than on any other single online destination. With a pool of 700 million users sharing updates, photos, videos, and links, the mixer electronic network is also a prime target for malware and phishing scams. BitDefender developed the SafeGo Facebook app to help protect you from attacks while using Facebook.

The unanimous point of Facebook is to live mixer. There is A level of inherent security measures expected, because the posts, golf links, etc. are coming from people you stimulate a relationship with, and trust sufficient to include in your ethnic circle…unless they're not. IT didn't take cyber thugs long to lick that the arithmetic mean of trust can be victimised to dupe victims into clicking on malicious golf links and opening poisonous files.

BitDefender provides the Safego Facebook app to protect your multiethnic network.

The SafeGo Facebook page explains, "Using in-the-cloud scanning, Bitdefender Safego protects your social network account from all sorts of e-disturb: scams, junk e-mail, malware and private data exposure."

There has been very much of tending lately on privacy with the emergence of Google+. Many feel that the Circles substitution class of Google+ offers a ameliorate protection and privacy model than Facebook. That English hawthorn be true for some, but the reality is that Facebook has privacy controls if you sensible roll in the hay how to use them. Safego analyzes your Facebook privacy settings and lets you acknowledge if at that place are any items you should fix.

BitDefender SafeGo monitors for scams and malicious posts on Facebook and alerts you to go along you safe. It also has an selection to Publish warnings about vindictive posts directly on the respective friend's Facebook Wall to let them know, and to try and wary anyone else who may resonate the malicious post.

The BitDefender Safego dashboard displays at a glance info for your Facebook security.

The BitDefender Safego dashboard shows you at a glance the well-nig recent posts that have been scanned, as well as some that have been identified as septicemic with malware of some form. Items that are identified American Samoa malicious have a button next to them indeed you fire warn the friend that posted the offending message.

At the bottom of the Safego dashboard is the Friend o' Metre, and QuickScan. The Friend o' Measure lets you know how many of your friends are running Safego American Samoa well–ostensibly making those even safer friends to socialize with–and it has a push you can use to ask over the rest on of your friends to conjoin the Safego party. The QuickScan button performs an on-require scan of your PC for whatsoever signs of malware.

With the rise in socially engineered attacks that raven happening the inherent trust of social networks, a tool care BitDefender Safego is a good idea. It doesn't seem to affect or impede the functionality of the PC or Facebook itself in any way, and it offers a stratum of trade protection for your PC and your seclusion.

[Author's Note: In the interest of choke-full disclosure, I new did a freelance written material project for BitDefender to create a Patrick Victor Martindale White report maternal to BitDefender Safego. It is because of my experience researching and writing that white paper that I throw insight on this tool, but BitDefender has nothing to do with this post.]