{"id":19624,"date":"2011-01-10T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=19624"},"modified":"2011-01-10T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:27:00","slug":"malware-minute-fake-youtube-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/malware-minute-fake-youtube-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Malware Minute: Fake YouTube Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"440\" height=\"285\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GTPivUj4yB0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GTPivUj4yB0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"285\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/sunbeltblog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20101109sunbeltmalware.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GFI\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18914\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The weekly roundup of top stories from the GFI Labs Blog.<\/p>\n<p>This week they cover the next version of the Storm Worm, fake YouTube ads for the movie Tron, a golden oldie Nigerian 419 scam and two rogues, ProtectShield and Spyware Protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[56,58,59,60],"class_list":["post-19624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malware-minute","tag-malware","tag-malware-minute-2","tag-minute","tag-youtube"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malware Minute: Fake YouTube Ads<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The weekly roundup of top stories from the GFI Labs Blog. 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