There have been people (or just one person with many different usernames) peddling many different video links lately. These links are to a website called BrokenTV.com. These individuals will join websites and spam the comments section of articles about television, music, or movies with links claiming to be for an exclusive video (often containing nekkidness) for whatever celebrity or event is described in the article.

When you click their link, you will be taken to a website that requires that you install a special "codec" to play their video. Ordinarily, codecs and plugins for your browser and media players are no big deal. In the case of Broken-TV.com, they will embed viruses and trojan horses in the codec software that will phish (steal) personal information from your computer and which the owners of Broken-TV.com will use for purposes of identity theft.

The best way to avoid falling victim to these scammers is to not click any link left as a comment unless it comes from a recognizable URL, such as YouTube or Hulu. If you want to protect yourself the best, then you should download McAfee Site Advisor for your Internet Explorer or Firefox browser. The latest version of McAfee Site Advisor has a "secure search" feature that installs as a toolbar for your browser and ensures that you will always be able to search the Internet safely. The Site Advisor also checks the results of your Internet searches against a list of known "bad" sites and flags them so you know which links you are clicking are good.

In conclusion, the Internet is a wonderful place full of useful (and some not-so-useful) information. Why let some scamming predator ruin it for you?