The Facebook Group Mass-Inviter (virus or password issue)

neville

So I'm fairly sure the cause is a weak password but...

I'm sure some of you familiar with bookface have seen those group invites to "Movies" or "Full Movies"
I apparently was sending out invites (as did some of my friends)

Didn't find much info on the FB help site; the best suggestion seemed to be that I had a weak password. So I changed my password, but I'm still paranoid that it could be something more sinister like a virus/malware/etc.

Anyone have any more details on this?

neville

Hmm, so nobody knows the answer I take it

T. J. Nutty Nub

You could have a keylogger on your machine that might already have the new password, I would do an extensive scan of your machine to be sure

neville

I've already done that. I asked because I was curious as to if anyone else knows what the cause is.
It isn't a keylogger.

Fletcher

my friend had a similar thing happen a while back; out of the blue someone on his account posted on peoples' walls saying to visit freecashetcetera dot com

assuming you had the same thing going on you're probably safe if you managed to change your password

i mean of course there is a chance that it could be malware

but i guess if "you" have stopped inviting people then you're probably home free

you could always post on your wall saying "if anyone receives an invite to 'movies' please let me know" or something

TheChin

I was thinking that it was an application that you allowed, but I have no evidence of that .

Aldo

you didn't just forgot to log out somewhere or logged in on a different (public) PC? A lot of my friends have had the same issue, I dunno what's up with it and FB doesn't seem to be too bothered by it. o_O

admanb

TheChin wrote: »

I was thinking that it was an application that you allowed, but I have no evidence of that .

Are you sure you didn't just say "Yes" to a "This application can..." dialog?