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App promises to change colors on Facebook, installs virus instead

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Monday, August 11, 2014
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There's a new app that claims it can change the color of your Facebook profile page, but users who download it are really putting a virus on their computer.

More than 10,000 people around the world have been duped into downloading the malware, according to a

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