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Why doenst myspace forbid Zango
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 23:30:21 -0500
Isn't there some way to prevent people from pulling a zango from the youtube pages? I would think that blocking anything that links to spyware would be a good policy. Now I havent used youtube, but I would assume that they have an AV scanner for posted content, right? from: http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6133447.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news Adware may be lurking in video on MySpace Several pages offer explicit video that appears to come from YouTube, but is hosted elsewhere and triggers installation of adware when played. Several MySpace pages offer what appear to be YouTube videos that trigger the installation of adware when played, a security company has warned. "Assuming that users have accepted the agreement, the video downloads and attempts to install setup.exe from Zango Cash," Websense said. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- Why doenst myspace forbid Zango Dude VanWinkle (Nov 07)
- RE: Why doenst myspace forbid Zango Hubbard, Dan (Nov 08)
- Re: Why doenst myspace forbid Zango Dude VanWinkle (Nov 08)
- R: Why doenst myspace forbid Zango Cornali Remo (Nov 08)
- Re: Why doenst myspace forbid Zango Dude VanWinkle (Nov 08)
- RE: Why doenst myspace forbid Zango Hubbard, Dan (Nov 08)