facebook is with web of trust to improve malicious detection

facebook is with web of trust to improve malicious detection

Facebook is hitted by many scams which spread by malicious scams. Facebook has it's own filtering system to filter malicious urls but many scams manage to pass this filtering system.  The social networking website has become one of the primary hunting grounds for scammers, spammers and malware distributors and the company is trying to fight it. Now facebook has partnered up with website reputation service Web of Trust (WOT) and will leverage its data to detect malicious URLs on the social network.

Tapping into WOT's intelligence will allow Facebook to detect phishing, spam and other malicious URLs faster.WOT is supported by a community of millions of users who have installed its toolbar and are rating websites based on several criteria. These ratings are coupled with data from other partners to determine the reputation of URLs.
When users will attempt to visit an URL flagged as malicious link by WOT by clicking on a link posted on Facebook, they will be blocked and prompted with a warning dialog.
"The link you are trying to visit has been classified as potentially abusive by Facebook partners. [...] This warning is provided in collaboration with Web of Trust," the dialog reads.
Users will have the option to return to the previous page or ignore the warning and continue to the destination, which can be useful in case of false positives.