It is becoming more apparent that the Facebook application Fan Check is the talk of Facebook at the moment so we have set out to find out exactly what is going on...
About Fan Check:
Apparently upon adding Fan Check your Facebook account will be infected with a virus that will add all your friends, now Mashable.com are providing some very good information on what not to do and it seems very logical.
Spammers could be doing this maliciously by claiming that Fan Check is holding a virus in return people are worried and searching Google for "Fan Check Virus" finding website's full of malware and adware this stands to reason as the the trends do prove that more and more people are searching for it (finding malicious website's).
We are with Mashable.com on this one and advise you Not to add this application and not to search for it within any search engines, it is more than likely that the fact that people are reporting that it has hacked account details and changed thier email addresses is that it is because they have visited a website outside Facebook, there is no proof that the Facebook application is adding the virus.
Our Tips:
- apps.facebook.com/fancheck/ <-- Stay away.. for now!