Microsoft has finally accepted responsibility for its role in a security weakness that allows malicious websites to run harmful code on an end user's machine.
the only way a video can easily infect our system with a virus is if it takes benefits of a well known exploit in the video player like a buffer overflow.the virus creator can embed this in a video and when the video is played on the player that contains the exploit, then it will infect the machine.youtube compresses all video which is uploaded;so the exploit written in the video will be destroyed through the compression
Windows Media Player
Apple QuickTime Player
Real Player (Free Version)
Adobe Flash Player
Adobe Shockwave Player
Camtasia TSCC Codec
DivX Player (Free Version)...if you have these on your machine then your pretty much covered for watching video online..
the word virus has no classically attested plural form in Latin.in antiquity the word had not yet acquired its current meaning.it denoted something like toxicity, venom, a poisonous, deleterious, or unpleasant agent or principle, or poison in the abstract or general sense..since virus in antiquity denoted something noncountable, it was a mass noun..
while the word viruses is more often used in medical and professional literature, the form virii remains popular in some Internet communities..
i don't think so its an ARP attack. how can a secure site like this can allow a silly attack directed to it's site..
maybe it's a part of their strategy..who knows!!!
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absolutely...that's the reason why they spend so much for it.
if u think windows is good enough,then why do people still complain about it? it doesn't make sense right. huh....
Microsoft has finally accepted responsibility for its role in a security weakness that allows malicious websites to run harmful code on an end user's machine.
the only way a video can easily infect our system with a virus is if it takes benefits of a well known exploit in the video player like a buffer overflow.the virus creator can embed this in a video and when the video is played on the player that contains the exploit, then it will infect the machine.youtube compresses all video which is uploaded;so the exploit written in the video will be destroyed through the compression
Windows Media Player Apple QuickTime Player Real Player (Free Version) Adobe Flash Player Adobe Shockwave Player Camtasia TSCC Codec DivX Player (Free Version) ...if you have these on your machine then your pretty much covered for watching video online..
this should be clear enough. http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html
i thought it suppose to be "inevitable"..what does this "Indevitable" suppose to mean??
there have only been a few cases of video-related hacking so far
the word virus has no classically attested plural form in Latin.in antiquity the word had not yet acquired its current meaning.it denoted something like toxicity, venom, a poisonous, deleterious, or unpleasant agent or principle, or poison in the abstract or general sense..since virus in antiquity denoted something noncountable, it was a mass noun.. while the word viruses is more often used in medical and professional literature, the form virii remains popular in some Internet communities..
yup,it's obvious...but still some people are just to innocent(or maybe too dumb) to know about all this things
i don't think so its an ARP attack. how can a secure site like this can allow a silly attack directed to it's site.. maybe it's a part of their strategy..who knows!!!
i think the chinese can be more dangerous than anything on earth... ;)