It’s not 2002 anymore, they’re bleugh at worst, and their threat centre is pretty much the same.Ĭ) “opening video files via youtube” is not the same as opening the file you might want. My browser point is this, if your malware filter is any good then the best a dodgy video can do is send you to a website that is blocked.ī) Oh just drop the Symantec bashing. Of course, once you have landed on that site, you’re already hit with the nasty.
What they do is simply make reference to a fake codec, then ask you to visit to download and retrieve it.
The video itself does not have malicious code in it, they can’t contain executable code. If you can’t accurately judge what files might be harmful, then please run around like that.Ī) I know how browsers work. Are there attachments you absolutely won’t open? Google it first and make your call from there. I recommend this to anyone who receives files where you just don’t know what it is. You can use Quicktime to view it or just upload to YouTube privately to check it out.īeing it was sent to my email from a cell phone, I knew there was no virus or malware within it and it was safe to open. When someone sends a video to you from their cell phone, chances are it will be this file type. I Google’d it and found it was a video file. If I receive an email with an attachment that has a format I’ve never seen before, I’ll Google it first to see what it is and decide whether to open it or not.Įxample: I received a file from a friend once that was a 3G2, and had no clue what that was.
I have never received a virus or been infected with malware from a static audio file. Both local email clients and web-based ones have become "smart" enough not to load images or any other "bad" stuff automatically like they used to. I used to be very anti-HTML when it comes to email but not so much these days.
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