WARNING: There Is No Such Thing As A Facebook Music Theme

Although MySpace may be attempting to once again become a relevant social network, this does not mean Facebook is adding MySpace-like features, as Avast Virus Lab warned in a blog post that a new scam making its way through the social network promises users the ability to add music-related themes to their Timelines and enable songs to play when other users access their Timelines.

FacebookMusicThemeScam650Although MySpace may be attempting to once again become a relevant social network, this does not mean Facebook is adding MySpace-like features, as Avast Virus Lab warned in a blog post that a new scam making its way through the social network promises users the ability to add music-related themes to their Timelines and enable songs to play when other users access their Timelines.

Avast Virus Lab Expert Honza Zika discovered that the code in the scam causes users to automatically like pages, photos, and groups, adding:

What this code does is modify Facebook.

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