Delete your cookies and browsing history. This should allow you to log in to your Facebook without having an unsolicited and possibly harmful product forced upon you.

This is a shoddy way to do business and a horrible way to work with the users who have taken every measure to ensure that their machine is not infected by a virus except to use Facebook’s partner product. No where in the 5 steps does Facebook offer an alternative to their partner product. This can only mean that Facebook is completely disinterested in your wants and is only interested in pushing their partner product – MacAfee. This makes Facebook no better than the shady websites that tell you you have a virus and try to trick an unwary user into downloading malicious software.

What massive hypocrites!

“6 months free subscription”? Seriously, who do they think they’re kidding with that?!
What happens at the end of the 6 months? Are we then going to have to pay for a McAfee subscription in order to use Facebook?
How stupid do they think we are?

They know people wont pay to use Facebook. Not when there are similar sites out there that don’t charge their users. So they are using this sort of underhanded tactic to make more money from us.
Don’t they make enough from all the targeted advertising?

Facebook seems to have forgotten how fickle internet trends can be.
We, the users, are the reason Facebook has become the business giant it is.
Remember Myspace guys, and learn the lessons from their mistakes.
The next social networking site confined to the annals of history could be you!

Am currently using macafee on my dell powered by windows7 and its pretty good so far, and if they are giving a 6 months free license, i don’t see any reason why one should not grab it 🙂

I agree with you. Mcafee work very well in partnership with Microsoft before. Now they want work with FB. WTS

Avira used less memory than Microsoft Essential.

Will this move prevent Koobface (and other malware) from spreading? Possibly.

Will this move correct ignorant/stupid user behavior that represents the greatest attack vector? Not at all.

I’m using MSE and it gets the job done nicely without using up a lot of system resources.

I’ve been running Avast for over 4 years now, and I’ve never seen a nag. I have to re-register every 14 months, but I think that’s fair given that it’s free and takes up so much less resources than Norton or McAfee!

Course, I run linux on my main box now so it’s only an issue on my laptop…

I feel you, but I think this would be a bad deal for the users.

It would require an unthinkable amout of bandwidth (on FB’s side) and personal security concerns on the user’s side.

JavaScript can be incredibly intrusive if you know how to write it, while at the same time it would make the rest of the user’s “life” that they have decided not to broadcast on FB more accessible to the site.

I’m not sure if you know this, but the guys over there are insanely smart. They have the ability to place ads specifically based on particular profiles.

The best thing to do is to get up and running with a solid established antivi; or switch to a Mac. And no, I don’t work for Mac.

It doesn’t do everything that the top notch Windows Anti-Virus programs do, but it’s free and open source.

Stunts like this and slowly whittling away your privacy is the direction Facebook is going towards. You can expect to see more of this as the investors who have pumped millions of dollars into the company dial up the pressure.

I think a lot of people aren’t coming to grips with the fact that Facebook is no longer an “innocent little startup with naive college-aged programmers at the helm”. The name of the game is money and the facebook you all knew and loved is long gone.

I run this and it’s quite good. It also replaces Defender.

Not to mention though, that they should be promoting browser security on the same token. Such as, notifying user of an outdated, vulnerable version of their browser, and suggestion they update.

I haven’t been through the process myself, as my account hasn’t been hacked, but it looks vaguely like that from the screenshots. Maybe someone from Facebook will drop by and clarify.

Don’t get me wrong. I love McAfee. I was fortunate enough to receive a premium membership free through my job and haven’t had a single problem since.

I think it should be a “free option” for the users who had their accounts phished, but it should NEVER be mandatory.

Just a thought.