Fri 29 May 2009
Nasty Videos on YouTube
Posted by Syd Tash under Alerts
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A Japanese bulletin board has posted 4,900 videos on YouTube, presumably using automated software tools. Each contains links to a Web page that will download malware onto your computer.
It is suggested that you will see pornographic content. Instead the malware pretends to scan your PC. Of course, it detects non-existent viruses, and urges you to buy a fake anti-virus program to clean it up.
YouTube is owned by Google, which claims to have removed the offending material, or most of it. Even so, be careful on such file-sharing or video-sharing sites, and on all social networking sites.
