It’s claimed that every minute, over 500 hours of content is uploaded to YouTube, which makes policing content on the site an ever-growing challenge.
It also makes the site an appealing avenue for cybercriminals: even though you can’t get a virus by watching a video on the site, you can be fooled into clicking on attached links, opening your PC up to all kinds of nasties. The trick, from the scammer’s perspective, is to make the video convincing enough to encourage the click.
