Facebook never forgets the dead!

BANGALORE, INDIA: When Twitter promises you a chance to send a tweet to the departed souls, how can Facebook lag behind?!

However, the social networking site has a more practical offering - friends and family of dead Facebook users can now have their loved ones' profiles 'memorialized'.

The site invited family members to report when one of its users had died, to enable it to remove sensitive information such as updates and contacts, according to media reports.

With the new 'memorialized' feature, a deceased person's Facebook information will be restricted to confirmed friends and family, and their profiles will no longer appear in the members' "Suggestions" box.

The "Suggestions" feature, introduced recently reminds users to "reconnect" with people in their network by posting something on their friends' profiles.

“We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it's important when someone passes away that their friends or family contact Facebook to request that a profile be memorialized," said Max Kelly, Facebook's head of security.

Facebook introduced this feature following the complaint by some users that they got suggestions to reconnect with Facebook friends or family members who have died.

Fake Facebook e-mail contains Trojan

Meanwhile, there are reports that Facebook has again fallen victim to malware attack.

According to security firms MX Labs and Websense, thousands of malicious fake messages had been sent out by criminals.

The mail, which shows "The Facebook Team," with the email ID "service@facebook.com", invites users to download a new password, but carries a piece of software that could allow their machine to be invaded by hackers, said reports.

MX Labs said in a blog post that the Trojan horse Bredolab "executes files from the Internet, such as rogue anti-spyware.

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