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Post by paradeoflunacy on Jul 5, 2010 19:53:27 GMT -5
I added this to my Journal on DeviantArt also:
I learned from a very reliable source that YouTube is going to be plagued by a few viruses over the next week or so! If you are an avid user, do yourself a favor and STAY AWAY!!! My friend, the source of this info, already had to wipe his computer due to these viruses! So PLEASE, be VERY careful if on YouTube!!!
I was doing a bit of reading, and it seems that all of Google may have been effected! It's a flaw of some kind, a flaw that these hackers have found a way to get through and are uploading these viruses!
If you don't believe me, look up "YouTube Virus Alert July 5, 2010" and you'll see the first three links are about it!
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Post by sunny on Jul 5, 2010 19:56:22 GMT -5
Oh dear... how alarming. DX
Thanks for telling us.
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Post by paradeoflunacy on Jul 5, 2010 20:00:19 GMT -5
Hopefully it'll all blow over soon... A member of DeviantArt told me how a few years back, 4chan hacked YouTube and uploaded a bunch of bad vids there as protest for removing the music videos. So maybe this is kinda the same thing, cause a few music videos have been removed lately...
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Post by Evaleva on Jul 5, 2010 20:03:50 GMT -5
Man- I use it almost every day. >3< S' a good thing ye told us though, I wouldn't want anything to happen to this new computer ]:
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Post by paradeoflunacy on Jul 5, 2010 20:06:10 GMT -5
NO! That would NOT be happy! I looked it up on Yahoo and the story I was reading said that Google confirmed it as of today...
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Post by lunarbasesforall on Jul 5, 2010 20:40:37 GMT -5
...Oh what the bloody-- This is why I don't like hackers that decide to throw viruses here and there.  Thanks for the warning. |
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Post by Darngoodbacon on Jul 6, 2010 0:35:41 GMT -5
;w; But how will I work with out unicorn songs playing in the back ground? MMMmm! That does explain alot! I was wondering why my blocker up on its toes. Hopefully, it'll be fixed soon. Last fall, my computer was hit by a nasty beautiful piece of coding ;w; If I ever meet the person, I want them to autograph my computer. It impresses me so much when people are so good at coding they can outcode companies and stuff.
Edit: Just don't look anything that has to do with Justin Beifer. That's what they were aiming at, so they say. Bless their souls. It's for the best.
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Post by paradeoflunacy on Jul 6, 2010 0:40:14 GMT -5
Google's calling it a "flaw". I said to myself, how could they possibly miss a "flaw" like that? The type a hacker can just pass right through! But yea, coders and hackers are really quite amazing, I'll give em that much. To pass by Google's radar, you'd HAVE to be good.
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Post by Darngoodbacon on Jul 6, 2010 0:48:57 GMT -5
It's been there for a while now! Hohohoho, for like a year and a half, ever since they started to upgrade their site. This is just the largest most malicious use of the 'flaw'. MMmm, awesomely good! Like the person who invented those Windows 2010-2007 virus-spyware that opens up slowly, first is disables your ability to look for help, then it throws a buntcha false your infected windows and on and on and on 'till your crippled entirely. Yay! But it never blue screen'd once!
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Post by paradeoflunacy on Jul 6, 2010 1:19:36 GMT -5
I've gotten those... I got anitspy/virus and computer cleaner... Took care of that problem! (*knock wood* lol)
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Post by Darngoodbacon on Jul 6, 2010 1:29:11 GMT -5
I was at school when it hit me, and it took me legit a month to get someone to look at it. The one I had required it to be manually removed >:I It attacked me in safe mode. I'm too scared to go do anything in it since! I feel like I need a backup computer! Hackers are getting tough!
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Post by Mimsie-chan on Jul 6, 2010 9:13:11 GMT -5
I hope they do irrehensible damage to YouTube even though I love it. >  It's gotten so snotty as of late when it comes to video expectations. And yet almost!porn roams around, prancing like a unicorn from hell. It's scary. I love the parodies and stuff though. |
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Post by paradeoflunacy on Jul 6, 2010 11:12:16 GMT -5
I hope they do irrehensible damage to YouTube even though I love it. > It's gotten so snotty as of late when it comes to video expectations. And yet almost!porn roams around, prancing like a unicorn from hell. It's scary. I love the parodies and stuff though. I agree. Only thing that worries me would be if YouTube had to delete EVERY video on the site and have people start all over again because the virus had spread to every video on the site, you know? I NEED my Let's Plays! They're my entertainment!  |
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Post by Mimsie-chan on Jul 6, 2010 11:19:04 GMT -5
Aw that WOULD suck now that you mention it.
I actually went on youtube today by accident. XDDDDDDDDDD Thankfully nothing happened.
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Post by sunny on Jul 6, 2010 11:26:04 GMT -5
R-removing EVERY VIDEO? ;A; T-that would be TERRIBLE. Where else will I get my easy MP3s?  |
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It's gotten so snotty as of late when it comes to video expectations. And yet almost!porn roams around, prancing like a unicorn from hell. It's scary. I love the parodies and stuff though. 
