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Nilloc
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 04:22
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I was on youtube to do and past by a video and clikced to watch it suddenly avg poped up saying it was a threat so i moved it to the virus vault and went away from the video did a whole computer scan alls fine so I turn off my computer and went outside come back on and it wont bootup i watched it for 10 minsh the loeading with the loading bar. I tried safe mode no luck.

Is it possibel for youtube videos to give you a virus?!?!

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Hobgoblin Lord
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 04:34
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My daughter got that antivirus 2010 ransomware from youtube.

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Quik
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 05:05
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may i ask why you turn of your comp when you have a virus?!

thats pretty much the most stupid thing you can possibly do


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Nilloc
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 05:09
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Quick

I ran my scanner 3 times and it reported no virus it was fully updated and i had moved the thing to the virus vault

In the year 2010 i got a disease called stupidity

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ionstream
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 08:28
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Quote: "thats pretty much the most stupid thing you can possibly do"


No its not.

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Nilloc
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 08:31
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now i think of it the stupidest thing to do is to go back and watch the video lol

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Asteric
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Quik its hardly stupid if he was not using the computer, and there was no viruses found, he used his common sense, he would have to switch it off some time any way.

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The Master Dinasty
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 14:35 Edited at: 17th Jul 2010 14:36
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Definitely not possible without the youtube account hacked(Which would be extremely hard in this case), but be aware that I know of a virus that looks like a Youtube link but are a link to a virus. Usually shared on Facebook but can be distributed anywhere thats probably how you got it.

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Quik
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 16:13
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iii dont think youtube can give out viruses,,, or... maybe iam just being stupid


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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 17:34
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It's usually a good idea to check the link itself not just the displayed text which can be anything, for example, I doubt this will give you a virus
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Nilloc
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 20:05
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hahahaha green gandalf your so funny

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charger bandit
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 20:09
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Basically it is impossible to get a virus by just opening a Youtube page. Either your antivirus is really horrible to find any website script malware or you clicked something else there.


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Nilloc
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 20:19
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nope it was a drict video on youtube i clciked pn and it said a virus was found and i use avg. but all is good i removed the virus and didnt lose any information

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charger bandit
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 20:22
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I guess you were that lucky that some virus showed up right at the time when you opened Youtube.


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Diggsey
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 20:47 Edited at: 17th Jul 2010 20:50
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You can't get a virus just by opening a web-page unless you're using a very old version of IE, or have disabled all the security options in IE.

What is more likely is that youtube had nothing to do with it. You already had the virus and AVG happened to come across it at the time you were watching the video. When AVG tried to remove it, it triggered the virus.

In fact, the virus had probably got itself into the boot-up sequence already, pretending to be a core component of windows. When AVG removed it, it removed part of the boot-up sequence, and so now you can't boot up

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Nilloc
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well i got it fixed now lol thats probably what happened diggsey

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ionstream
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Quote: "You can't get a virus just by opening a web-page unless you're using a very old version of IE, or have disabled all the security options in IE"


I was extremely frustrated to find recently that sometimes this isn't true. I was browsing a harmless website a couple months ago (something similar to Gizmodo but I don't remember), but it apparently was hijacked because I managed to get a virus. In Firefox. Apparently it used a Java web plugin exploit and I had to reformat my machine.

Java is long disabled now.

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Johnski
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Posted: 24th Jul 2010 02:57
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*sigh was it rick roll by anychance lol. coz that is a sirt of viral video

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