Adware may be lurking in videos on MySpace

Several MySpace pages offer what appear to be YouTube videos that trigger the installation of adware when played, CNET reports.
The sexually explicit videos can be found on a number of user pages on the MySpace social-networking Web site. They look like YouTube videos, but are in fact hosted on a copycat “Yootube.info” Web site.
“When users click on the video, they are directed to a copy of the video,” a security company said. People are then redirected to the Windows Media Player, which will pop up a license agreement with installation of an adware program called Zango Cash.
Word of the sneaky installations of Zango’s software comes just days after the advertising software maker and the Federal Trade Commission announced a $3 million settlement in response to charges that Zango had breached federal law by deceptively installing its software on consumers’ PCs without a clear means of removal.