GFI Vipre: Facebook Users Beware-A little too chatty?

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There’s a program called ChatSend currently doing the rounds on Facebook, and at time of writing just over 114,000 people have hit the “Like” button which no doubt means a high proportion of that tally have downloaded and installed it. Including one in my stream—



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The link directs to the Facebook page of ChatSend where one can readily download the app. Upon execution, it shows a GUI containing its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The GUI, however, is narrow and the text is not wrapped within the width of the text box, which makes it difficult for users to read as they need to scroll from left to the farthest right.



Note the pre-ticked boxes that will install the toolbar in all browsers, set web search as default and change the homepage.


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This excerpt is shared with permission from GFI Vipre.

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