http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20081008/ap_on_hi_te/tec_techbit_youtube_spoofing
Criminals are creating fake YouTube pages to spread their malicious software by making replicas of the real site. There is a program online that helps people make the fake sites. This is a very bad thing because it is a new way to spread viruses. You Tube is a trusted site so people will not be cautious if the page looks normal. This could lead to other popular Websites, snowballing until it is hard to trust any site. We need to control the spread of viruses through Websites so that it does not danger the usefulness of the web. Also, I still really don’t understand what the point of spreading viruses online is. The criminal doesn’t get anything out of it. It’s like a bully on the playground in grade school who just likes to see other people suffer, except the bully can’t even see the damage he is causing. Luckily the article said alert Internet users will be able to detect the fake YouTube sites. The address won’t be YouTube’s real address and to see the bad page, you have to follow a link, which is another tip off.
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