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YTFakeCreator is a latest tool to create fake Youtube Website to spread malware. Panda Security has  YTFakeCreator, that enables anyone to easily create a fake YouTube page that surreptitiously installs a Trojan, virus, or adware on a visitor’s computer. YTFakeCreator does not not spread malware links by it’s own, an attacker must distribute it via e-mail, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer file-sharing networks or CD.

YTFakeCreator configuration menu

Then, two files are created; one of them belongs to the fake YouTube Website (Index.html) and the other to the error Website that is displayed once the malware has been downloaded (Error.html):

Fake YouTube websites created with this tool look like

warning message can be easily modified with the YTFakeCreator configuration menu

Users get a page asking for download a fake Youtube Plugin and if user select to download the Plugin the selected malware is downloaded to users computer and user get an Youtube error page

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Visit these sites when your media player goes on strike.

YouTube Help Center: In case of troubleshooting it is too quick to recommend that you un-install and then re-install the Adobe Flash Player (going through instructional video).everyone think that it is the simpler and surest way to cure all type of minor malfunction/glitches, but here I would start with the simpler steps the site suggests, like restart your browser, accessing the page using another browser then clear your browser cache.

Here I recommend you to clear your browser cache it can cure a range of page loading woes. In Firefox, click Tools > Clear Private Data, check the “Cache” option and rest uncheck, and click the “Clear Private Data Now” button. In Internet Explorer, click Tools > Delete Browsing History, and click the “Delete files” button next to Temporary Internet Files

Adobe offers a Shockwave Player support FAQ site is specific to Windows XP and others that describe various error messages, along with info on troubleshooting topics.You’ll find the latest version of the Flash Player on the Adobe Download Center. The company’s Flash Support Center is intended for Flash developers.

Apple iTunes for Windows :Apple provides separate pages to troubleshoot iTune video on Windows Vista and windows XP/2000 . it contains “unexpected quits, freezes, and launch issues” on this page for Vista and this page for XP/2000

Apple QuickTime for Windows: If you see an animated QuickTime logo in bottom right corner on QuickTime Troubleshooting site it means Apple’s Media Player is installed and functioning.

Troubleshooting Windows Media Player 11: Microsoft’s has its own troubleshooting website for the media player .It contains separate section for Most Popular/Common Questions, Self Help Options, Technical Support Options, standard FAQ’s on playing DVD’s, ripping MP3’s and finding the installing codec’s.

In typical Microsoft fashion there is separate WMP FAQ page for Windows Vista and another troubleshooting page that focuses on problems when using the player in XP and for good measure a Knowledge-Base article is troubleshooting resources

Most of the company has its own support site that provide some pages to handle and cure the problems like installing QuickTime for Windows, to enable Flash content in QuickTime movies, to view streamed files behind a firewall, and diagnosing audio-playback problems (for iTunes also).

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TiVo users will now watch YouTube Videos on their television set through their broadband TiVo boxes. TiVo users can only watch and bookmark YouTube video but they can’t download and save YouTube videos. TiVo does have partnerships with 60 online sites that offer content. Partnership between these two companies allows broadband-connected subscribers with TiVo Series3™ and TiVo HD DVRs, to access hundreds of millions of user generated videos hosted on YouTube.

Tara Maitra, Vice President and GM of Content Services at TiVo, said

With YouTube content now available on TiVo, on top of all the movies, music videos, songs and TV shows that are simply unavailable on cable and satellite, TiVo subscribers have more choice on their TV sets than any other TV viewers in the world,” said Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo Inc

Hunter Walk, YouTube’s director of product management, Said

YouTube brings video where the audience is - across the Web and onto mobile devices, TVs and video games. The partnership with TiVo extends our ability to make YouTube accessible anywhere and lets people watch what they want, when they want it.

Soon, users will also be able to log into their YouTube accounts directly through the TV to access their videos, channels and playlists, making the experience even richer.

• How to browse YouTube on your TV
• YouTube and TiVo Website
• Press release : YOUTUBE™ ARRIVES TO THE BOOBTUBE THROUGH THE TIVO SERVICE TiVo Offers Subscribers More Ways to Discover Relevant and Personalized Content Directly from the TiVo Remote

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TV Makers like HP are working towards to bring YouTube video on consumers TV sets.HP is also planning to include YouTube video’s in it’s MediaSmart range of Internet enabled home entertainment products. To Watch YouTube video’s on HP’s MediaSmart Products consumers need television, set-top box and Windows Home Server.YouTube will be built in to the set-top box and the MediaSmart TV.

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