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Do you spend hours together watching YouTube videos? Beware, you can easily become a prey to the hackers who use face pages that are similar to YouTube pages to gain access into your computer. The hackers are said to use these malicious pages to operate harmful software on your computer. So far no one suspected that YouTube videos to contain any malicious codes and all of us opened these videos without any hesitation or second thought and now we need to be little careful about the pages that we  open. We can easily allow access to hackers and lose all our data to them.

Many webmasters use YouTube videos to promote their websites, products and services online. Now with this hacker threats, the effectiveness of this approach may be affected. We may not get as many clicks as before because people are going to think twice before they are going to click on your videos. If you have been relying on YouTube videos heavily to promote your site, then it is time to start thinking about a different strategy at least temporarily until people start feeling comfortable about using YouTube videos again.

As one of the most trusted community websites on the internet, YouTube is one of the most desired ways of hacking into people’s computers. A number of people use this social networking site to share applications and resourceful links. As such, it is easy to propagate virus or malicious software through this trusted social networking site. Other social networking sites too have been misused by the hackers and the other social networking sites that were used by the hackers include MySpace and FaceBook.

As per the latest scam, links are sent to YouTube users with a message that states that it is a must see snippet in YouTube and when the users click the links they will be sent to a page that requests instructs them to update their software to watch the video. No one will ever doubt that the page that instructs him or her to update the software is a duplicate page because it is an exact replica of YouTube page. Many users trusting the instructions have agreed to update the software and at this stage, the hackers install malicious software in the innocent user’s computer. This malicious software is capable of registering keystrokes and stealing data. In extreme cases the software can even takeover the entire operation of the computer. As this malicious software runs in stealth mode this will never be noticed by the user.

Security experts suggest us not to trust any links from people whom we don’t know. If at all you are curious to view the videos in YouTube, rather than clicking the dubious links that you receive via mail you must directly visit the social networking site. This should serve as an eye opener for those of us who use social networking sites extensively. Even while joining any network or community in the social networking sites you must be cautious, as we never know what kind of people are out there.