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Facebook showed up as "facebook.gm" on my Mac, is this a virus/malware?

I was chatting to a friend on Facebook tonight, and I looked at the address bar. It said "facebook.gm", or "facebook.gr". I forget which, but I'm fairly sure it was the former.

I use a Macbook Pro 2010 with OS X Mountain Lion... I'm running a virus scan right now, but it came clean on a frequent scan. My computer has been running extremely slow lately, and the battery has been going down fast (I just got it replaced two months ago, too).

Update:

No worries, I know that .gm is another TLD, but I'm asking if it is possible that my browser is being redirected from the standard .com domain by a trojan or something :s

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  • 8 years ago
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    .gm is simply an extension just like .com/.org/.net/.edu.

    So no

    And besides, virus's dont effect hardware(your battery) it has nothing to do with that. If its running slow try reinstalling your OS. The chances of a virus on your mac are already slim to none. Hardly anybody makes virus's for macs because they are very underrepresented in the computer world. No reason to make a virus for the 20%

  • 8 years ago

    .gr is a Top Level Domain meaning whenever you connect to a website with .uk or .au after it that's the nation its hosted in .gr is the domain of Greece

    if you are currently in Greece you are fine, but if you are not i would suggest downloading a different browser just to see if you are still getting redirected. if yes then check www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/ if the results from this website match your current location you do in fact have a virus/malicious program if they do no match however you are using a proxy/vpn which unless you setup would be cause for alarm if this is the case you will need to do a system restore (or time wind thingy i don't know mac's all that well but i know you have something that does the windows equivalent)

    I would untill you have this problem resolved advise you NOT TO LOG INTO FACEBOOK or any other services (which sadly includes yahoo/gmail/ebay/creditcards)

    (AND THANK YOU! FINALY a mac user who knows that MACS CAN GET VIRUS'S)

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    no

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