Beware of YouTube similar kind Porn Sites

Over Internet its very common that if there is a good site, then definitely there will be copied or similar kind of website will be there. These fake sites want to cash the popularity of original sites by stealing the users. previously these type of fake sites limited to registering similar domain with the small change in spelling. For example if you type http://www.youtube.com/ you will go to the main Original site of YouTube. If you type http://www.youtube.net/ its directed to a porn site will be having listings all porn related stuff. At this point Google and Yahoo are managed these types of problems. For google when i tried with these domain names gooogle.com, googlee.com its successfully redirected to the original site. Similarly if you type http://www.yahooo.com/ it takes you to the original site.

This copying culture not only limited to the Domain Names. Now extended to copying the templates and logos of original sites. There are some porn sites with looks exactly similar to the YouTube including the similarity in the titles too. For example check the below Logos.

Original Logo

Similar Logo

If it is limited to the copying template then the user is in safe side, but some sites download Trojan virus into your system and starts stealing your personal information. When you try to browse these sites, when you click on any video to watch, it pop ups a window asks you to download the video codecs to play these videos. As soon as you accept codecs to download, it downloads a software with the name Virus Heat 4.3 along with a trojan virus. Virus Heat then displays fake system alerts or fake security alerts to trick user to buy the paid version of Virus Heat. The window of the Virus Heat looks like as shown below.

Likely error messages for Virus Heat may include, “Your computer is infected with Spy ware. Your Security and Privacy are in Danger” or “Spy ware programs can steal your credit card numbers and bank information details. The computer can be used sending spam and you may get popups with adult or any other unwanted content” or “System has detected a number of active spyware applications that may impact the performance of your computer. Click the icon to get rid of unwanted spyware by downloading an up-to-date antispyware solution.” Not only does it cause your machine to slow down dramatically, it would also put your privacy and data in risk. And also you can find a status bar in the Internet explorer showing the risks status.

If you want to remove these Virus Heat, download the free malware remover from the follwoing site http://www.malwarebytes.org/. After downloading just install the software with default settings, and then run the software by leaving the system in idle position. It cleans the all malware stuff including this Virus Heat virus.