Once Facebook learns of a phishing attack , either by members notifying the company or employees noticing that a URL is being distributed to a lot of people , the company deletes the URL from members ' pages , blocks fresh postings , and removes the redirect to the URL that appears in e-mail messages , Schnitt said . Facebook stopped a worm attack Thursday , its second day of battling a virus . It lures users to a fake Facebook page and forces them to log in . The page then steals their identity when they type their username and password . Facebook spokesman : The attacks were stopped within a few hours in each case .
Facebook stopped a worm attack Thursday , its second day of battling a virus . It lures users to a fake Facebook page and forces them to log in . The page then steals their identity when they type their username and password . Facebook spokesman : The attacks were stopped within a few hours in each case .