You can potentially get a virus from any site, but Youtube is a big boy, as sites go, and they can afford some pretty good protection. Do you worry about going to sites like Yahoo, AOL, MSN, Google? If not, then I wouldn't worry about youtube either. If you think, after I've been posting here for 3 yrs, that I'm suddenly passing out links with viruses, then just go to youtube and look up stonemonkey55's videos.