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A new scam has begun spreading virally through Facebook, based on the often requested ‘dislike’ button.

Facebook, which allows users to ‘like’ posts, pages, and other content, has yet to create or approve a ‘dislike’ button.

Now a new scam spreading throughout the site tricks users into installing a rogue application which claims to be a dislike button.

Instead, the application uses each user’s account to virally spread itself, much like the “hot” and “funny” video scams which have plagued the social networking site in recent months.

Those attacks were designed to steal information from users, including their login credentials.

Protect yourself from this scam by avoiding any links, even from friends, that claim to provide a dislike button.  If you’ve already been victimized, deactivate the application, delete all posts referencing it from your wall, and eliminate it from your ‘likes’ and ‘interests’ in your profile.

As with the previous scams of this sort, changing your Facebook password is also recommended.

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