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" Facebook has agreed a partnership with Kaspersky Lab that will tackle malicious threats on the world&amp;#039;s largest social network, as well as offer free security software to users.  Kaspersky will supply up-to-the-minute data about the latest software threats to Facebook. This will be used by the social network to protect its users from &amp;quot;inadvertently visiting malicious web pages&amp;quot;. People are known to be more likely to share a link supplied by a friend, and cyber-criminals prey upon this trust to spread malicious URLs throughout a victim&amp;#039;s personal contacts without their knowledge.  But now, when Facebook users share or click on a link shared by their friends, it will instantly be compared against Kaspersky Lab&amp;#039;s database of malicious web pages.  If the link matches Facebook&amp;#039;s list of known &amp;#039;bad&amp;#039; URLs, then the user will be immediately notified and blocked from visiting the web page.   This will prevent the user&amp;#039;s personal information and computer from being put at risk, and stop the malicious link from spreading further.  Kaspersky Lab&amp;#039;s team of more than 800 anti-malware experts can analyse 125,000 threats every day.  In addition to the security advice, Kaspersky Lab is offering Facebook users a free six-month subscription to Kaspersky PURE Total Security or Kaspersky Security for Mac. The security software protects PC and Mac owners from malware threats that target either the OS X or Windows operating systems. The offers can be accessed through the &amp;#039;AV Marketplace&amp;#039; tab on the Facebook Security page.  Discussing the Facebook partnership, Kaspersky Lab&amp;#039;s director of global research Costin Raiu said: &amp;quot;Over the past ten years, we&amp;#039;ve seen incredible growth in the amount of personal information people will voluntarily share, and cyber-criminals have naturally &amp;#039;followed the money&amp;#039; by creating scams and malicious programs specifically targeting social networks.  &amp;quot;It takes a blend of online awareness and top-notch security technology to be protected online - one cannot take the place of the other - and by partnering with Facebook, Kaspersky Lab intends to provide both.&amp;quot; &amp;amp;gt; Facebook&amp;#039;s new UK engineering hub to focus on mobile Facebook&amp;#039;s chief security officer Joe Sullivan added: &amp;quot;Starting today, the people who use Facebook will be able to benefit from Kaspersky&amp;#039;s industry-leading intelligence and technology with their malicious URL data and inclusion in the AV Marketplace.  &amp;quot;We look forward to the combined work of our companies to help keep people safe both on and off of Facebook.&amp;quot; Facebook has agreed similar security partnerships with Avast, AVG, Avira, Panda, Total Defence, and Webroot, who will all provide software for its Antivirus Marketplace and add to its URL blacklist. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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