Virus makers look to online videos as distribution conduits

[mandy]

Online videos aren't just for bloopers and rants — some might also be conduits for malicious code that can infect your computer...

As anti-spam technology improves, hackers are finding new vehicles to deliver their malicious code. And some could be embedded in online video players...

With computer users getting wiser to e-mail scams, malicious hackers are looking for sneakier ways to spread the codes. Over the past few years, hackers have moved from sending their spam in text-based messages to more devious means, embedding them in images or disguised as Portable Document Format, or PDF, files.

"The next logical step seems to be the media players,"...

full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071002/ap_o...ersecurity

[regic]

Banner ads are another distribution channel.