Youtube malware be careful

I went on youtube on a search for more Johnny Carson & Letterman videos. I got a malware virus from it, I'm running vista and Bullguard, It got rid of it but be careful.

 

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu9uXhqJHu0sACp9XNyoA?p=YouTube+malware&fr=b2ie7&ei=UTF-8

 

Thanks for the addition Brad.

 

I thought that problems only happened there when you clicked on malware links embedded in the text. I've never heard of problems viewing or searching.

 

I'm unclear on the concept. Somehow playing a video on the YouTube site can install malware?

 

Yep, some videos do have malware links or malware embedded in them.

 

Happened to me. I picked up a nasty malware called "Awola". Took me five hours to find the right product to get rid of it. I'm now using SuperAntiSpyware. Ad-Aware was useless.

 

At work, if a system is heavily infected, I disable system restore - remove the hard drive, put it in my test machine and run Kaspersky 7, Adaware 2007, Spybot S&D, AVG Antispyware and Superantispyware scans on the drive, each program will pick up components that the other ones dont.

Malware & adware are a pain!

 

I got a nasty one from MySpace when in a weak moment I agreed to install a codec to view a profile.

 

Brad, are you answering Jstraw's question, or commenting on the post before his?

 

This is horrible news. There's no place safe on the internet anymore. Except here. Well....there are those.....threads.

Thanks for the heads-up Bryan.

 

just don't use IE

 

I have IE secured, anti-virus, anti-spyware, etc, I don't click on any links on YouTube video pages. Just be smart and you have nothing to worry about.

 

I also had the same experience when watching vintage footage of Lennon and McCartney on "The Tonight Show".

 

Strange... I've seen that same footage on YouTube and I didn't get any malware or anything.

 

So is this thing random? What's the bottom line here? I mean it's sounding to me that surfing youtube is a crap shoot. Huh?

 

Let me get this straight. People aren't going to links, they aren't downloading fake codecs such as the Zlob trojan, they're just watching videos on the YouTube site itself and getting malware? How does that work?

 

No problems here ever with Mozilla.

 

Aaaah, the joys of Ubuntu Linux.

 

All I can tell you is I've been using YouTube for quite awhille and never had any problemms when viewing videos. As far as I know; there is no way to get a virus, malware, etc from simply viewing a YouTube video. They're Adobe Flash files.

 

Sometimes just going to a site can infect a computer.

 

But the site in this case is YouTube.com which is run and owned by Google, who I sort of doubt is putting infected websites out there.

 

True. I was just saying that one doesn't have to open an email or click on a link to get infected nowadays.

 

Exactly. This is pure FUD. If someone has specific, contradictory details explaining how playing a Flash file can install malware then do share it. Otherwise, this is fear-mongering.