Scan Videos for Virues

[Scrunchybunchy94]

A few months ago, I download a video onto my computer, i shut down the computer and all of a sudden my comuter was messed up and I founf out a virus was on my computer and there was nothing I could do about it, I lost everything on my computer.


If you guys could be like youtube and put up a scanner so people won't get a virus on there computer, it would be lovely.

[BasharOfTheAges]

1st - your sig is too large.

2nd - last I checked it was rather difficult if not impossible to put a virus in a legitimate video container.

[Scrunchybunchy94]

I got a virus from a vid on this site

[The Origonal Head Hunter]

Can you be sure? Did your anti-virus software clearly state the filepath was a video you downloaded from here? If so, what video was it, so that we can effectively delete it?

[Scrunchybunchy94]

Can you be sure? Did your anti-virus software clearly state the filepath was a video you downloaded from here? If so, what video was it, so that we can effectively delete it?

Norton clearafired it was from here, but I downloaded a bunch of vids...and it didn't star which one it was,

I belilive it was 'Kids from the 80's'

A Transformers one...but i can't be sure (Epic Memory Fail Sorry, schools been a pain)

[kmv]

I belilive it was 'Kids from the 80's'

I guess you mean this one:



Now I will admit that there is something odd about the file (it comes down without a MIME code - which means it was prpbably uploaded without an extension) but if you have a look at it - and I did - it is just a WMV.

Give the file a '.wmv' extension and as long as you have Windows Media v9 (or later) installed it should play fine. Did for me.

What I haven't done yet is check to see if there is a script in the file (WMVs can contain scripts) but these have been abused for so long that most players ignore them. I'll look into this later.

I'd guess that your infection and the video download probably happened around the same time - but not at the same time. That said, it would be good if you could remember the other videos so that we could at least check.

2nd - last I checked it was rather difficult if not impossible to put a virus in a legitimate video container.

It is possible; .mov, .flv, and .wmv have all been vectors in the past - usually by breaking the file format in very specific ways so that a crash with memory corruption and code execution will occur. So called "drive by" infections from flash video in a web page has been especially popular.

[JaddziaDax]

what about getting a virus scanner for your computer and checking the files you download before you open them?

or get the latest version of firefox, it has a virus scanner in it O:

[BasharOfTheAges]

2nd - last I checked it was rather difficult if not impossible to put a virus in a legitimate video container.

It is possible; .mov, .flv, and .wmv have all been vectors in the past - usually by breaking the file format in very specific ways so that a crash with memory corruption and code execution will occur. So called "drive by" infections from flash video in a web page has been especially popular.

Well, I knew about .flv (which is why I prefaced "video container" with "legitimate") - probably should have guessed something made by M$ wouldn't exactly be safe either though.

[Zarxrax]

or get the latest version of firefox, it has a virus scanner in it O:

No, you must be using some mod of firefox...

[AaronAMV]

or get the latest version of firefox, it has a virus scanner in it O:

No, you must be using some mod of firefox...

I have it also, and I have no mod