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it's hard to hide from hackers recently researchers at UC Riverside found that Facebook with its billion users has become a popular way to spread spam and other malware the team studied the Facebook pages of 12,000 users for four months almost half of them when exposed to at least one stock whereas what you want to call it which is short for social malware the viral nature of social networks makes them especially vulnerable and if your friend says he does it's cool deal out there for a free iPad you're much more likely to believe it to help protect users the researchers created my page keeper an app that identifies malicious links or ads posted on profiles and there are more ways to keep hackers at bay pay attention to how posts are worded most spam posts seem to contain these typical kinds of keywords like walk free deal OMG and so on because the end of the day you need to attract the users attention another red flag free offers the first thing they do is okay if you want to get your free iPad then fill out this form they even asked for your credit card details so really all this is just a front for identity theft and as always when it comes to links think before you click it could help you avoid all that social spam something your friends will like in San Francisco I'm Sumi das cnet.com for CBS News