Facebook arms users with Trend Micro and F-Secure anti-malware support

by Alastair Stevenson  21 May 2014 
Facebook has announced plans to integrate anti-malware technologies from security firms Trend Micro and F-Secure into its services, in a bid to help spot and clean infected machines logging in to the service.
Facebook software engineer Chetan Gowda announced that the company will offer the technologies to customers in a public blog post.
"We've worked with F-Secure and Trend Micro to incorporate free anti-malware software downloads directly into our existing abuse detection and prevention systems," explained Gowda.
"When logging in from the infected device, you'll see a notification screen about a malware infection, along with a recommendation to use F-Secure's malware scanning and cleanup technology or HouseCall from Trend Micro."
 
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Maybe they are trying to clean up their act.