F-Secure creates a safety application for Facebook

Sep 5, 2011 13:58 GMT  ·  By

ShareSafe is an application designed to keep your Facebook account safe from spam and other malicious elements which affect online profiles.

Social networks are experiencing an all time high, this being a great chance for spammers and hackers to launch their ill-intended operations.

According to the creators of the app, your news feed and wall will be protected. Members who decide to use this new feature will have the opportunity to discover new links and win rewards.

A great thing about ShareSafe is that it will scan the links you post, making sure they don't lead to unsafe websites.

The safe links you share with your friends can earn you points and badges which will later translate into prizes.

As shown in the promotional video, released on F-secure's blog, these prizes can consist in F-Secure Internet Security Suite packages, Online Backup licenses and even iPhones or iPads.

If you want to know what you have to do to win these products, you can press the “Here's how to earn more points and rewards” button.

Just as a general guideline, you get 10 points each time you share a safe link and you receive an extra 10 each time one of these links is clicked. You also earn 10 points when someone says they “Like” one of your links. The most credits are gained when you ask a friend to join the community and the invite is accepted.

The application's dashboard keeps you permanently posted with the number of points you've earned until that moment. It also shows you the number of likes, clicks and badges you have.

ShareSafe is actually trying to raise awareness on matters like spamming and illegal link posting on social networks, the prizes being used as a marketing tool, to better attract Facebook users in this campaign against malware.