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prab

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Hi,

have any of you heard of facebook.exe? It can be found here, http://mirror.facebo...cebook/desktop/. I tried launching it and it asked to open my windows firewall. I let it and it did nothing. The process facebook.exe takes about 12 meg of RAM. I also tried launching it from command prompt, but no output was given. Any ideas what this is or what it does?
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You mean you installed something and allowed it through your firewall without knowing what it is or what it does? That's never a good idea.
For the low-down on Facebook go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
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I realize that it was not a great idea, but was curious what would happen. It came from a trusted source and I have several other antispyware programs running. Also, I have all my data backed up and don't mind reformatting.

I know what Facebook itself is, but was wondering about the executable that I found. Maybe I'll run net-mon with it launched and see what servers its connecting to.

edit: form != from

Edited by prab, 09 November 2007 - 10:52 AM.

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