Problems with YouTube

[Red Spyder]

Lately whenever I've visited YouTube I keep getting some program that tries to install itself and my antivirus keeps catching it. I got windows Vista (yes, I know, shut up, please) and I get the usual security pop up about giving some program permission to connect to the internet, which I keep declining, again, and again, and again.

I know how to get rid of it now, just opened task manager, select processes, found out where that annoying little bug was hidding, stopped the process and then right away deleted it from my hard drive. It's getting really annoying, it's something called "Dr. Links" or something like that and the .exe file has a bunch of numbers like "001451514523.exe", anyone else having those problems?

I'm just wondering how many other people are having the same problem and what you've been doing about it. At first I thought it was all the porn I downloaded and all those porn pages I visited that gave me that problem but I'm very surprised it actually happens after visiting youtube!

Maybe they're trying to track every page I visit to tell the govment what I'm up to and send me to a reeducation camp... :tinhat:

 

[Supafly]

Hm I did not experience that...

Thanks for the warning!

 

[busenbust]

no issues here.

 

[TheOrangeCat]

never seen that ... sounds like it might be something third party to YouTube that is detecting your browsing when you visit the site

 

[GodsEmbryo]

... it's something called "Dr. Links" or something like that and the .exe file has a bunch of numbers like "001451514523.exe", anyone else having those problems?

Never had any problems with it. You can always Google 'Dr. Links' or '001451514523.exe' and see what comes up.

 

[Facetious]

Whenever any repair pop ups show up on my screen (very rare), I quickly FORCE QUIT & restart.... DONE!

 

[busenbust]

^^ good idea ! not -- in any way -- full-proof, but good idea. careful though, as can sometimes cause corruption of OS files .

 

[Red Spyder]

never seen that ... sounds like it might be something third party to YouTube that is detecting your browsing when you visit the site

That's exactly what I think it is. There's another site, non-porn, that I usually visit every day that gave me a very nasty virus one time, the "Antivirus Action" thing that doesn't let you open any application, whether it's word, spreadsheet, powerpoint, IE, firefox, and I think it's something from the ads in the webpage.

Now, I did google "dr. links" (it's not just Dr. links, I don't remember the rest of the name) and it did take me to a rather suspicious "antivirus" site, sort of like there's some people who make up a virus or malware and then they make the solution to the problem. Though I didn't find anything when googling 0.16752692166643146.exe (that's the exact .exe file I got)

Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone out there ever had some issues like that. Not just YouTube, like I said, I got an even worse virus from some other site. I did solve the problem, Malwarebytes did the trick, which I HADN'T downloaded before, but now it's going to be de rigueur for any new PC I get, just had to run it on safe mode.

By the way, I just remember, I think I didn't get it from YouTube but from another favorite (non-porn) site, but it's just too much of a coincidence that whenever I've visited YouTube during the last week or so I keep getting an "msiexec.exe" pop up that's related to the Dr. Links or 0. bla bla file.

 

[Facetious]

^^ good idea ! not -- in any way -- full-proof, but good idea. careful though, as can sometimes cause corruption of OS files .

The last thing I want to do is inadvertently click on any part of the evil and invasive pop up window... understand, I've never ever done this before. O-º (lie)

I run both macs as well as PC's (windows) and I must tell you, I have to yet to get the bug with the mac OS-X, although I'm hearing that both are becoming equally vulnerable to the dickhead virus authors these days.

 

[busenbust]

The last thing I want to do is inadvertently click on any part of the evil and invasive pop up window... understand, I've never ever done this before. O-º (lie)

I run both macs as well as PC's (windows) and I must tell you, I have to yet to get the bug with the mac OS-X, although I'm hearing that both are becoming equally vulnerable to the dickhead virus authors these days.

oh absolutely sir; been a nasty few for the Mac OS -- Jobs has a provided an update 'fix' for i believe; yep, i use both Windows and Snow Leopard Os too :thumbsup:

 

[PirateKing]

Just the typical issues for me. Dumbfucks posting comments, vevo monopolizing and censoring all the music videos, people I'm subscribed to posting disappointing stuff (making me forget why I subscribed in the first place), random people messaging me to spam their stupid vids, ect.

 

[L3ggy]

Just the typical issues for me. Dumbfucks posting comments, vevo monopolizing and censoring all the music videos, people I'm subscribed to posting disappointing stuff (making me forget why I subscribed in the first place), random people messaging me to spam their stupid vids, ect.

This.