I tried to log into my facebook account for the past week and they have up some fake message blatantly saying my computer is infected and that I'm required to download some unknown antivirus program and scan my computer with it in order to regain access to my account. This sounded shady to me and I didn't trust it one bit, and don't trust downloading anything to my computer on a whim like this anyways. So I did a thorough scan on my computer with my own antivirus and it came back clean just like I suspected. Furthermore, I googled about this and found that a lot of facebook members have (and are still) being shown this same bogus message and having their facebook accounts held hostage! I also read stories where people downloaded this facebook antivirus and then were hit with sales messages left & right to buy this shady antivirus. This a flat-out scheme and I hope some authorities crack down on Facebook hard for trying to drive fear into the public by putting up blatant message (not even suggesting) but flatout telling people that they're computer is infected and that the only way to regain access to their account is to download their antivirus!
This is bull and I have lost total interest in facebook after this. Glad I really didn't have a lot of pictures and personal information on facebook, never believed in that, so I can walk away from this shady social network and not miss a beat. But I feel sorry for the people who feel helpless and muscled into complying simply because they have so much of their lives tied up into some third party social network that they neither own or control. If this is not a wake-up call not to get so wrapped up and submit so much of your personal information to these social networks, then I don't know what is.