Humpty Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Quote: The new exploit pretends to be one of the many free video codecs found on the Web, which enable end users to view digital video and audio in a faster, compressed format. But when they click on the software and pull up the license agreement, users find that the software has already been installed on their computers. Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Someone speculated this was a move by the MPAA (Movie Picture Ass. of America). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyKlein Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 This is merely one of the myriad incarnations of the same pest; previous ones have been called newvidscodec, emcodec, emediacodec, media-codec, nvidcodec, v-codec, vicodec, mediacodec, pornmagpass, digipassword, xpasswordmanager, pcodec. All spread via adult sites prompting you to download a 'missing codec' or 'software key' required to view their content and so on... In fact all of these are detected as variants of the Zlob aka Puper or FakeAle trojan, downloaders that prompt you to install one of the many rogue 'spyware removers' such as SpyAxe, SpywareStrike, SpyFalcon, Winantivirus and many other clones... Tony CLSID List - A Collection of Autostart Locations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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