After hearing about the association between the "Secret Crush" application and an important spyware producer, Facebook disqualified it.
According to official information, the separation is definite: "Facebook is committed to user safety and security and, to that end, its Terms of Service for developers explicitly state that applications should not use adware and spyware". They also declared that the Facebook Platform Terms of Service had been breached so they stopped the Secret Crush application.
A bad news for the Facebook users emerged last week when trying to discover a potential partner. The security firm Fortinet declared that when the message "One of your friends might have a crush on you!" appeared, the solitary users immediately followed the given trace: a link to software from Zango (similar with adware), installing the application, inviting minimum five friends in and, finally, downloading a "Crush Calculator" application with Zango software.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t the proper way to find love.
Later, a public announcement made by Zango shed light on the entire situation: Secret Crush still exists in the new "My Admirer."
The same source stated that if Fortinet had paid more attention it would have clearly seen the facts: the customers are just a click away from the choice of installing or not installing the Zango software.
In the social-networking world, spyware and adware asserts doesn’t represent news; an example are the problems of the News Corp.-owned MySpace.com, when adware was masked as YouTube videos. Yet, the concerning matter is either Facebook, or other site that accepts third-party developer content, should do something about. After 1.5 million users had installed Secret Crush, appeared the question if a company built on user- and developer- should be more careful in satisfying the customers.
Facebook also advises that because the users will get in touch with third-party content on the Facebook Platform, they must pay attention when downloading any software.
