Red Facebook installs 'Yontoo' which some AV vendors consider as Adware. The tagline used is "Say goodbye to the boring blue profile and say hello to the new red profile!!"
When you click on the above post you're redirected to the site www.redfbprofile.info and it asks you to follow 2 steps in order to get the new red Facebook profile.
First step is to share the post with your Facebook friends. Second step is to comment something good about the post(Red Facebook) which you haven't seen yet. Once done you will be redirected to the below page.
Here download now will download a file from download.pagerage.com/PageRageSetupAff.exe and installs Yontoo browser plugin which may display ads while you're on Facebook or other sites .
Below seen is the browser plugin Yontoo1.0.1 installed.
If you’re Chrome user go to Tools->Extensions->Remove
Always install applications from trusted source and aware of the content before you share them with your friends through any social networking sites.
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