You may think I'm paranoid but than again none is forcing you to read this.
I'll get straight to the point. I was watching YouTube today on my Xbox360 when all of a sudden the subtitles in which were somehow turned on. starting have ? characters. then my Xbox360's crashed twice, after a cold boot everything seemed fine
I was watching CGR Undertow again, and as the playlist continued instead or giving me ? characters the screen started popping out command lines of an adobe program. and other various coded messages. I quickly turned off the video, because I heard of a lot of talk on the internet about malware codes hidden inside videos on Youtube, also this is a problem on Facebook apparently as well
If you think about it, by using a media platform such as YouTube anyone can upload to it, and if someone or some gang wants to be an asshole you know they would have to choose YouTube to spread their work
I previously years ago only heard of malware inducing videos, only being on porn sites or free some anime sites but it seems logical that people no longer go to a lot of porn sites, and some people have the itch to write programs to steal personal data and or even destroy our equipment
it's your call but If I were you I'd stop using YouTube today and forever. Because if it can happen to porn sites and some free anime web sites it can happen to you too.
Google states
Can you get a virus by watching a video?
There's no way in the world a person can get infected with a computer virus. Hopefully, you know that. Now, your computer could in theory get infected with a virus while you're watching a video, but the watching of the video would not be what's causing the infection
I think someone is editing the code in some of the videos