ahh, Websense...

Home of the malformed URLs that I block on a regular basis.

Really?

"one in five items on the news feeds"

Hmm, not on mine -- I'd say about zero.

In fact I've yet to even see a dodgy link on my newsfeed.

Maybe, just maybe, it's down to what people subscribe to rather than a blanket spamming of newsfeeds.

And maybe, just maybe, the clue lies in "Romanian-based net security firm BitDefender"

Facebook is once agan getting the same sort of flak that used to be attributed to email but it's still down to users to click on things or to reply to things they've not read through carefully.

The sky has not fallen in, the four horsepersons of the Apocalypse are still in the pub.

Personally i think...

Personally i think if you are daft enough to fall for them you deserve it, think darwin for facebook :p

But in a more serious tone, social networking was always going to be the new way of distributing rouge software as its awash with 12 year olds with no netsense extreme example

Little johnny is surfing facebook on mommys work laptop

Little johnny sees a add on his friends wall for free mario on your facebook page

Little johnny clicks the link and nothing happens its just a blank page

Mommy does her online banking her details are stolen her company goes bust they lose the house and little johnny is taken into care.

extreme but nearly doable with really bad security settings these days.

A better way of doing this is educating children in net safety i haven't had a single spyware/malware/scareware on my system in years, but the missus is awash with crap and is cleaned weekly because she has no sense of whats dodgy and whats not.

Thanks for doing the maths

> three in five (60 per cent)

I would never have worked that out on my own...