False Positive YouTube Virus Warning?

Science | Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:45:31 pm PST

We’ve received several emails today about a PC antivirus program complaining about a virus called “Actns/Swif.T” when LGF was loaded. This warning message seems to be related to the embedded YouTube videos, and CrunchGear says it’s a false positive.

UPDATE: Spoke with Google/YouTube and apparently anti-spyware software from Computer Associates had been returning false positives, identifying certain files contained within YouTube embed codes as malware. The specific YouTube issue is apparently being corrected by Computer Associates and wasn’t actually harmful in the first place. If you’ve got CA software, you might want to check for any updates.