The following article will guide you fight the annoying spam that invades our social networks to study, specifically Facebook and Twitter, also mentions some of the tools available to Comnunity Managers (CM) to keep their areas free of litter. As a comunidade internet is growing, growing interest of spammers to spread their campaign on a massive scale, to the point of becoming a complex problem to manage. Given its popularity, Facebook and Twitter are social networks preferred by spammers to compromise the integrity of the users who frequent these services. In addition, malware or cyber criminals are taking advantage of sending malicious messages to spread all kinds of malware (viruses, trojans, etc), making it a potential spam threats. Fortunately there are applications that allow us to have a higher level of protection for accounts that have a position in social networks. Here we'll list some of them: Anti-Spam Protection to Facebook Constantly launch spam campaigns that spread quickly through Facebook, in particular companies or brand pages, especially those that concentrate their marketing efforts to make or promise raffle prizes as the number of "like" or votes that a User managed to accumulate over a given period. To block the malicious company Websense, Defensio created a powerful application that will help protect both our profile, Facebook page or group of spam and malicious content. Defensio, provides high levels of security against threats that target, along with better management and control of the content published. Thanks to the notifications sent by email, the tool allows us to protect us from spam as well as alerting us to remove malicious content or leave it in quarantine, as if it were an antivirus software. Once installed the application on our website, we have an administration panel to configure security filters. From there you can block links by categories (gambling, adult, viagra, etc), filter words that do not want to publish, to block links or executable files and prevent the use of scripts among others. The application is free and also serves for WordPress and Drupal. So it's a good idea to rely on it. On the other hand it is worth mentioning that this year Facebook launched its own spam filter, which is available and visible only to administrators of pages or groups. You can access the spam menu, from the Status option, then Options and then select the Spam section where it appears that Facebook has been filtered to remove or restore the wall. It is an option that comes by default but it is still very basic it lacks customization options and does not have malware protection. Anti-Spam Protection for Twitter. Twitter always attract spammers and bots responsible for disseminating all types of malicious content, making it important to have tools to help us filter these users. Among the recommended applications include: Twitblock: A simple online application that besides being free, allows us to clear our account of Spammers. The application has two options for use. The most productive is to connect this application with our Twitter account to automatically perform a scan of our fans and then we point to consider how many of them are spammers. The other option is to do the process manually one by one to show us the tool that are spam rank (the higher the number, the more likely to be spammers). This last option usually turns out to be quite cumbersome. TwitChuck: An online tool that helps identify whether a user is a spammer or not, based on an analysis of user behavior. Just a matter of entering the nick of a user to see the results. Definitely a good option to report spammers. Truetwit: This is another interesting utility to ensure to have more "Followers legitimate" Spammers. TrueTwit, is designed to prevent automated spam submissions by robots. It has two modes of use. The first is through a basic account and also free, which sends a validation request via a direct message to anyone who wants to follow you. The follower must successfully complete what is asked by a CAPTCHA system. The second alternative is to opt for a premium account that offers more customization options. Besides the risks that are associated with spam about harmful content delivery and the hassle it causes users to have to deal with unwanted advertising. There are also side effects of their existence such as lost productivity that generates both a community managers and users to continuously review information on the web, plus the negative effects that occur when a social web of a brand is full of this "plague". The main barrier is the anti-spam tools. Anyway, it is also important that users be very careful with the links posted on Facebook and come from a friend or our favorite fan page. The same applies to twitter, caution should be the links that follow.