If you click on the wrong link on Facebook, a virus may find its way into your bank account and drain it of all your money. The New York Times’ Bits Blogs details how a 6-year-old virus called Zeus is all over Facebook right now. Here’s how to avoid it.After a malicious link is clicked, Zeus will remain inactive on your computer until someone logs into a bank account, swiping usernames and passwords so hackers can access it. A security firm called Trend Micro has found Zeus-laden links with increasingly frequency on Facebook, including on one football fan pages.Of course, there is no fool-proof way to avoid viruses like this one. But there are three ways to avoid becoming the victim of this particular one:

1. Avoid Windows computers if possible.

Business Insider’s Kevin Smith notes that Zeus targets machines running on Windows, and does not work on Mac OS X or Linux. It’s usually not feasible to switch operating systems, but it’s one way of avoiding the virus. However, variants of Zeus that can infect Android and Blackberry smartphones have been found, so it is possible that a modified version of the virus is at work here as well.

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