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Does youtube and facebook send viruses out on your computer? - Amateurplant809 - 05-03-2013 02:06 AM
I heard it from my cousin.I just wonder if it's true.If it is I am going to stop using facebook and youtube.
- pappy12a - 05-03-2013 02:21 AM
Not the sites themselves,but if you go around clicking on links without thinking you could get a nasty surprise
- Dass - 05-03-2013 02:22 AM
Ads or the apps on facebook may.
- OWNED! - 05-03-2013 02:33 AM
youtube= no
facebook= yes
- ???? - 05-03-2013 02:35 AM
Youtube and Facebook themselves are not a problem. What you have to watch out for are all the applications that you can add to your account. Most of these are not made by Youtube or Facebook and are not regulated by them. The makers of the applications can slide in viruses but more likely they can put in spyware that is loaded onto your computer. It is not a common practice but it does happen.
- Ivan - 05-03-2013 02:39 AM
Definitely not! I've used YouTube for 3 years now, and I've got no problem. Many, many people use YouTube and Facebook, but if they sent out viruses, no one would ever use them, but anyway, just be careful not to click on ads and links, there are plenty of them on YouTube and Facebook, so watch out! Some of them might have viruses. Don't take the chance!
- ComputerWizKid - 05-03-2013 02:47 AM
Youtube=No
Facebook=Yes
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, has detected two variants of a new worm, Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a. and Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b, which attack MySpace and Facebook respectively. As part of their malicious payload, the worms transform victim machines into zombie computers to form botnets.
Even though the worms are currently only infecting MySpace and Facebook users, Kaspersky Lab analysts are warning users that the worms are designed to upload additional malicious modules with other functionality via the Internet. It is highly probable that victim machines will not only be used for spreading links via these social networking sites, but the botnets will also be used for other malicious purposes.
Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a spreads when a user accesses his/her MySpace account. The worm creates a range of commentaries to friends' accounts. Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b, which targets Facebook users, creates spam messages and sends them to the infected users' friends via the Facebook site. The messages and comments include texts such as Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street; Examiners Caught Downloading Grades From The Internet; Hello; You must see it!!! LOL. My friend catched you on hidden cam; Is it really celebrity? Funny Moments and many others.
Messages and comments on MySpace and Facebook include links to http://youtube.[skip].pl. If the user clicks on this link, s/he is redirected to http://youtube.[skip].ru, a site which purportedly contains a video clip. If the user tries to watch it, a message appears saying that s/he needs the latest version of Flash Player in order to watch the clip. However, instead of the latest version of Flash Player, a file called codecsetup.exe is downloaded to the victim machine; this file is also a network worm. The result is that users who have come to the site via Facebook will have the MySpace worm downloaded to their machines, and vice versa.
“Unfortunately, users are very trusting of messages left by 'friends' on social networking sites. So the likelihood of a user clicking on a link like this is very highâ€, says Alexander Gostev, Senior Virus Analyst at Kaspersky Lab. “At the beginning of 2008 we predicted that we'd see an increase in cybercriminals exploiting MySpace, Facebook and similar sites, and we're now seeing evidence of this. I'm sure that this is simply the first step, and that virus writers will continue to target these resources with increased intensityâ€.
Kaspersky Internet Security detected these threats proactively and signatures were added to the database on July 31, 2008.
- CJ - 05-03-2013 02:56 AM
You are wierd.Your cousin sounds gay.His name is probably Andrew.he proably skates.believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.
- Max M - 05-03-2013 02:58 AM
It's possible. Just don't download anything strange from these websites.