http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MzU0NDEsLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE=
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D93MHQT80.htm
just a heads up… be careful what links you click on and use good judgment. If you know that you already have flash installed and it’s asking you to do it again/upgrade, be cautious
Savvy Internet users know that downloading unsolicited computer programs is one of the most dangerous things you can do online. It puts you at great risk for a virus or another time bomb from a hacker.
But even some sophisticated surfers could get taken in by a sneaky new attack in which criminals create fake YouTube pages – dead-on replicas of the real site – to push their malicious software and make it look like it’s safe stuff coming from a trusted source.
A program circulating online helps hackers build those fake pages. Users who follow an e-mail pointing them to one of the pages would see an error message that claims the video they want won’t play without installing new software first. That error message includes a link the hacker has provided to a malicious program, which delivers a virus.
Even worse: once the computer is infected, it’s simple for the hacker to silently redirect the victims to a real YouTube page to see videos they were hoping to see – and hide the crime.
“It’s spot-on accurate, and that is scary,” said Jamz Yaneza, threat research manager for security software company Trend Micro Inc. “If I were watching YouTube videos all day I would probably click on this one.”