YouVirus

This rumor about a YouTube virus has probably gotten as many "I knew it all along" smirks as "I'm sure it’s nothing" statements made in panicky voices. People have apparently come across a warning message while viewing videos which says that some kind of anti-virus software has detected a virus, and then users are re-directed to a website that installs spyware on their computer. I don't know much about how these things actually work, but I understand how some people can be all stressed out hearing about news like this. It's amazing how much time people have come to spend online doing useless crap when they're supposed to be working. I'm sure a lot of us have at one point chosen to check out YouTube, or update a Facebook account, or shop on eBay instead of finishing a digest for an 8 am class the next day. Like all things that are awesome at their inception, virtual criminals have found a way to exploit this social phenomenon. Most netizens probably don't think twice about trusting an established site like YouTube, and hackers or whatever you call them were able to exploit this human tendency instead of just looking for loopholes in software like they normally do.