Maggie's Farm

To clear up any confusion:

1. Zlob isn't "adware", "spyware" or a "phishing" program, it's a good old-fashioned trojan. It allows people to access your computer without your knowledge. A Google search for "zlob" pulls up tons of hits.

Here's the PC World article on the YouTube problem:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133232-pg,1/article.html

2. Zlob is a few years old and any decent anti-virus or anti-spy program should get rid of it.

3. You don't get it from watching a YouTube video, per se, but from clicking on a fake video link.

It should go without saying that you should be running a quality anti-virus program in the background at all times, and scanning all of your files with an anti-spy program once a week should be SOP. I use Spy Sweeper, but there are many good ones out there.