Facebook users on IE get a request to download the gzip_detect.php file
August 13th, 2010 - 11:29 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Aug 13 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Facebook users are battling another issue after the innumerable privacy breaches and leaks by the company. The latest Facebook issue is that the users of the popular social networking site who are using the Internet Explorer browser are getting a strange request to download a file, which is called ‘gzip_detect.php’.
There is no absolutely no clarity on the constituents of the file and the officials at Facebook have also not commented on the issue at hand, so it is being speculated that in all probability the file is a virus or some spy ware.
And the other issue related to the file is that it is not popping up for all the users who are opening the site on Internet Explorer.
Recently Facebook was in the news when a hacker of the Skull Security – Ron Bowes had leaked the information of over 171 million Facebook users on his website. Much to the dismay of the Facebook users, the 2.8 gigabyte file contained phone numbers, URLs and e-mail addresses as well. And perhaps the most interesting fact is that the list is not illegal because the data is made public by default by Facebook.
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