Popular social networking website Facebook, and giant of the online and PC security world, McAfee, have joined hands in order to improve the security Facebook offers to its current user base of
350 million users, which keeps growing with every passing day.

Under the new partnership, McAfee will be offering users of Facebook the opportunity to make the most of a free six-month subscription to the company's Internet Security Suite software. In addition, the security firm will be working closely with Facebook to ensure that a free quick response scan-and-repair service can be provided for any new malware or virus threats that emerge.

McAfee's security contribution has been a valuable addition to Facebook's much larger effort to ensure security of its users, which now includes an automated process which effectively detects abnormalities in accounts of the site's users which could hint to a possible malware or hacker attempt.

"Few people have problems today with Facebook. But with social-networking worms such as Koobface on the rise, along with attackers looking to harvest Facebook passwords, there's a need to keep pushing harder on security protections", said Barry Schnitt, Director of Policy Communications at Facebook, while talking about the new security efforts.