Remove Facebook Friend Request virus From PC

Tips To Delete Facebook Friend Request virus

Facebook Friend Request virus is a precarious application that sends friend requests to unknown people with malevolent purpose without users’ approval. Moreover, men behind this parasite might even use your public images and posts to create a fake version of your Facebook account and employ it to contact your real friends with the motive to extort money or personal data from them. If you are bothered with Facebook sending friend requests issue for a while, you have been involved in the vicious scam related with these request messages.

More About Facebook Friend Request virus:

Facebook Friend Request virus belongs to the category of Facebook virus and is generally used to scam careless social media users by sending out friend requests without having permission of the account’s holder. This nasty malware can be related with various scams and cyber criminals often utilize social engineering to make people share their login credentials or make them tap on malware-laden links. An unexpected friend request from a person that you might even know, might end up with a hijacked Facebook account, malware infections, financial losses or even identity theft.

As per the reports, the Facebook Friend Request virus was more active in 2017. However, in the mid 2020, we can see it is still very much active. The techniques used by fraudsters almost not altered, they either create fake profiles or malevolent apps to send friend requests and scam users or their friends. As always, the sole motive of these scammers is to swindle money or acquire control over someone’s account. Normally, the reason to hack accounts is to gather personal information or use it for further distribution of spiteful links.

The Facebook Friend Request virus and scams associated with suspicious friend requests on this highly popular social media network can be separated into various categories. We need to review each of them to learn what to expect from them and how to get rid of this threat. The official post about this scam includes following text:

Your account isn’t sending duplicate friend requests. And you didn’t receive a request from the person you’re forwarding it to.

You’re simply doing it because the message tells you to.

DON’T.

Otherwise, you become one of the reasons why the hoax is spreading so fast.

There was a cloning epidemic on Facebook 18 months or so ago. That was genuine.

And people still do get hacked.

The message that went viral these past few days is different, however:

It urges you to forward it to “all the people you want to forward to” – which many take to mean all their friends.

Ways To Spread Facebook Friend Request virus:

This notorious malware attacks Facebook’s users via direct messaging. Scammers send you a misleading message that appears to be belonging to your friend and offers to click on a link in order to see an image or watch a video. Besides, clicking on every app on Facebook may also cause the penetration of such infections because they are hacked by cyber crooks quite often. As soon as the virus is activated, it begins sending the requests to strangers and may also start accepting all pending friend requests that you unnoticed previously.

How To Prevent Such Attacks?

To avoid these infections from intruding into your device, you need to be very careful while using Facebook. Facebook is not a completely safe place, and there are some slight adjustments you can make to guard yourself and your friends. First of all, you are highly recommended to make your friends’ list private. If it is public, fraudsters can easily access it and send precarious messages to them in your name. Apart from this, you are also advised to keep sensitive details private. If you can, make your photos accessible for friends only, too. In case you are already infected with this threat, you must remove Facebook Friend Request virus from the machine as soon as possible.

Threat Details

Name– Facebook Friend Request virus

Category– Social media hoax, Trojan

Belongs To: Facebook virus

Description: Steals users’ sensitive, Personal information can be accessed by questionable people

Purpose: Get money or sensitive data from victims

Symptoms– Slowness of device’s performance, fake error messages, security alerts, intrusive ads and pop-ups, unwanted redirects to questioning sites and so on.

Distribution– Misleading messages sent by scammers that seem to be belonging to friend, malicious link

Removal– Manual and automatic guidelines as provided under this article

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Facebook Friend Request virus:

Remove the related items of Facebook Friend Request virus using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Facebook Friend Request virus issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Facebook Friend Request virus) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Facebook Friend Request virus removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Facebook Friend Request virus still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Facebook Friend Request virus plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Facebook Friend Request virus removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Facebook Friend Request virus (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.