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Welcome new visitors!

Author: Jakob Barnard  //  Category: SGB News

Greetings new visitors! I have noticed a significant amount of traffic (for existing readers, think factor 10) coming in due to the “YouTube virus? Actns/Swif.T” post.  A lot of people are wondering what to do about it.  The best advice we can give is to update your AntiVirus as often as possible and don’t click on “install this” items if you do happen to be redirected to a different site.  The redirection is annoying but harmless, it is the actually voluntarily installing malware that is what causes the problems.

I would like to take this post to welcome all of the new visitors and encourage you to subscribe to SuperGeekBlog.  This is a tech and geek site.  We sometimes are a bit random, but try to come up with interesting, helpful, or just plain fun posts for you to read.

Take a look around the site, bookmark it, and let us know what you think in the comments!  As for my existing readers and visitors, I certainly haven’t forgotten about you folks!  Thank you as well for your continued support to this site.  It is exciting to see the growth and increased interaction – both on posts here and on Twitter.  (Along with other social networking sites.)

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YouTube virus? Actns/Swif.T

Author: Jakob Barnard  //  Category: Security

From CrunchGear moments ago, reports of a new virus are coming out just this morning.  The virus seems to imbed a URL redirect to a phishing site.

The site apparently installs Antivirus 2009, which is malware. We’ll pull our most recent YouTube embeds, but be careful because this one appears to have just broken out today. If you find yourself being automatically redirected or experience other weird pop-ups, especially for something called Antivirus 2009, don’t click on anything.

Keep an eye out for more info/patches/etc on this.