Facebook: I keep receiving spammy groups.

[pauleddy]

Some kind of bot or malware keeps joining me to spammy or porny FB groups. They seem to come from Vietnam or Indonesia, judging by the language. I receive about six every day, and my machine (Mac) sends them all on to my friends and siblings. One good friend has had to remove me from his FB.

I have to say, at this point, that I am no great fan of FB, but I use it because it allows me to see so many contacts in one place AND to follow professional groups to which I belong.

I have blocked some groups, but they just change their names and start over again. I have sent several to FB, who only tell me that Community Standards are not breached etc etc.

Should I re-install FB? Write to FB? How? What?

All help gratefully rec.

Eddy

[mike324]

sounds like your computer is infected with malmare and your facebook password may be compromise. Run a couple of different programs such as Malwarebytes. Change your Facebook password. Stay off of your MAC and just use it from your phone to see if changing the password and deleting the groups itself helps, if so that means your password was compromise probaby from the infected computer.

[2fishin2]

More than likely not your computer. Change your facebook password if you can.

[Chicog]

If you are sending them on, then I'd say you're infected.

Do a complete scan and clean of the PC before you do anything.

Change your Facebook password and secret information on a separate PC while that's running.

I would suggest changing your email passwords as well, because if the PC is compromised, anything you've used on it could be, too.