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Virus Writers Target Web Videos

#1 quietman7

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Posted 01 November 2006 - 07:46 AM

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The growing popularity of online video has caught the attention of malicious hackers and hi-tech criminals. Security firms are reporting more and more instances of booby-trapped Windows codecs - file compressors - required to play some video formats. Some of the codecs...have spyware and adware wrapped inside. Others...are outright fakes that just want to infect victims with data-stealing programs...

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#2 Walkman

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Posted 01 November 2006 - 09:45 AM

That's the **AA's doing that. They're going public with their tactics. They are creating the problem,,, watching the reaction,, and are going to come up with the solution. This has them written all over it. I don't even doubt it.

They are determined to put an end to file-sharing, online FREE movie watching, and everything else that we do for FREE, concering the media content.

I've told people for the longest time that movies and music have coding in them, and they can track them and tell where they originated from. They're actually putting out their own spiked movies and music, just to bait people in. And it's especially true for anyone that gets any disc at all that's a "pre-release". They have your name written/encoded all over them.

Again.. those hackers/virus writers are those **AA groups. No question about it.