Is Facebook harvesting data from your computer?

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 by jimmy Email your friend! Facebook this! Tweet this! ShareThis!ShareThis

From time to time I like to glance at the /var/log/system.log file on my Mac. This log file lets know you know what a Mac (or any Unix flavor) computer is doing in the background. Today I noticed something odd… There is a Facebook application running in the background! Why on earth would there be a Facebook application running on my computer. It seems as though it snuck it’s way in when I installed the Skype/Facebook video chat plug-in.
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