Facebook has announced a partnership with McAfee to offer a free trial of antivirus software to Facebook users.

"Under growing pressure to protect its user base of more than 300 million active account users from phishing, malware and other cyberattacks, Facebook said it conducted a search and determined McAfee was capable of developing a security strategy to protect user machines and educate them on the latest threat vectors," writes SearchSecurity.com's Robert Westervelt.

"Facebook is rolling out the news to all of its users in a series of advertisements on the site, linking to a six-month trial download of McAfee's Internet Security Suite," Westervelt writes. "In addition, McAfee has developed a light-weight PC scanning and malware removal tool that will be made available to owners of hijacked accounts during the account remediation process."

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