Viruses on YouTube!

Last week, one of these videos ended up in my "Videos Recommended for You" section on the YouTube homepage. Assuming it was just a harmless application, I decided to download and run it. Lo and behold, the file disappeared and a number of unwanted programs ranging from BHO's to keyloggers end up on my computer.

After several failed attempts at getting rid of the software, my computer would no longer start up correctly, and I eventually ended up having to actually delete all partitions from my PC and create a new one. Thank God I had a backup!

Unfortunately, I didn't find out about these until after the fact:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001627.html
http://blog.spywareguide.com/2009/03/wii-points-generators-avoid.html
YouTube needs to know about this!

EDIT: And yes, I know I misspelled "description".

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• backdoor
• pirate
• pirates
• virus
• keylogger
• YouTube
• Wii
• Shop
• Channel
• 360
• PS3
• PSN
• XBLA
• Windows 7
• Gaia Online
• points
• code
• generator
• keygen

[GaryCXJk]

Wait, people still fall for this?

[BaconStein]

As crazy as it sounds, yes, people still get viruses.

[Tahvo619]

Also the "free pc games" add has viruses in the application.

F-secure blocks the site :P

[Shadow009909]

thanks

[XioXaio12]

Thanks for the warning!