Recently, Facebook announced that, it has joined hands with McAfee to provide its millions of users a complimentary 6 month subscription to McAfee Security Software. And after 6 months free subscription if any facebook user is interested enough to continue the subscription then he/she needs to pay a fee for renewal. The fee amount has not been decided yet, though it has been made clear that it will be less than the annual subscription price that is being charged to McAfee’s retail customers.
If your system has some virus, then the McAfee software will ask to run a scan and get rid of the virus before logging in to facebook. This is how both will work in collaboration as mentioned by the Facebook project manager. He also claimed that this is the first time some free social networking site is providing such a facility.The social networking sites like facebook, are the main target of hackers. A new type of susceptibility, as per Security Researcher R. Zilberman is attacking social networking sites. Say you are logging into your facebook account and in another browser tab you have opened one of such sites which have some embedded malwares, then it may happen that the later one can actually steal your data from facebook!!!
Facebook, with McAfee will provide the pleasure of a social networking site along with the security for your machine. This is actually a very appreciable step taken by Facebook. But, I would also like to mention that McAfee software can’t work on MAC OS X or Linux. Though number of people using these operating systems is only about 5/6 percent of the total internet users, but they might lose to cash the benefit from this collaboration.
