Updatevideo.com

Updatevideos.com is a malicious website that distributes malware through fake links for software updates. While Updatevideos.com, by default, displays an image highly reminiscent of a typical Flash Player update prompt, Updatevideos.com isn't affiliated with any real software companies and propagates malicious software, rather than legitimate updates. PC threats related to Updatevideos.com's content, such as the HTML/ScrInject.B.Gen virus, can be propagated through browser redirect attacks from a browser hijacker or redirects from other harmful sites. Common types of malicious software that are distributed through Updatevideos.com's hoaxes include backdoor Trojans, rootkits and other high-level threats, and SpywareRemove.com malware researchers urge any visitors to Updatevideos.com to scan their PCs with suitable anti-malware tools as soon as possible.

Updatevideos.com: the Vague Update that's an Immediate Security Downgrade

Outwardly, Updatevideos.com may seem to be a poorly-described but harmless website for updating your movie player, but even a quick look at the software that Updatevideos.com installs on your computer will immediately reveal that it's just another disease vector for malicious software. In previous cases of very similarly-presented attacks, SpywareRemove.com malware research team has found sites like Updatevideos.com to use two primary methods of promoting themselves:

• Malicious websites may provide links to Updatevideos.com's fake software update, especially fake movie and music sites that seem to be plausible sources for a media update prompt.
• Some browser hijackers also may be used to redirect traffic to Updatevideos.com. A browser hijacker infection usually will trigger its redirect to sites like Updatevideos.com once you've visited a media-related website, such as YouTube – thereby making it seem as if Updatevideos.com's update prompt is affiliated with a reputable site.

Updatevideos.com's content is detected as a generic HTML script injection attack labeled as HTML/ScrInject.B.Gen. SpywareRemove.com malware experts usually find that attacks like Updatevideos.com's download attempts are efforts at proliferating high-level threats that can include banking Trojans, Trojans that attack your computer's security software and, in some cases, even advanced PC threats that inject their bodies directly into another program's memory process. As a bottom line, any contact with Updatevideos.com, even if you don't download anything intentionally, should be treated as a security risk.

Getting Your Updates Safe and Sorted from the Updatevideos.com's Malware

Updatevideos.com is one of the most recent websites to try and peddle malware through fake update links, but is far from the only site to utilize these types of social engineering attacks. As a general defense against content from Updatevideos.com and similar sites, SpywareRemove.com malware experts recommend using strong browser security in combination with avoiding any intentional software downloads from sources that you haven't verified previously as being trustworthy.

Contact with Updatevideos.com and, in particular, installing software from Updatevideos.com should be counteracted by using strong anti-malware products to find and delete any malicious software that may have been installed through Updatevideos.com. Since high-level PC threats often are installed automatically and rarely have obvious symptoms during their attacks, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers regularly advise against trying to delete such software without any assistance from the right software or a PC industry expert.