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Yes. The increase in popularity of media sharing Web sies provdes a great oppurtunity to distribute mailicious programs. Last yearm approxiametely 500,000 people downloade what they thought was a media file from the internet. In fact the file was a Troja horse that infected many computers with spyware. For this reason, it is important to scanall media files for malware before playing them.

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Run an anti-virus software on full scan, when it finishes delete the infected file, or do it manually, which I don't reccomend.


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