Divo Codec

[spysr]

I dowloaded a movie off the net recently and notice it was encoded with this Divo codec. (New i guess)

I just purchased a Phillips DVD player with Divx. Does that mean my new purchase will soon be obsolete?

I havn't tried to play it yet on the standalone because it couldn't even play on my computer.

[45tripp]

a quick search reveals it's trojan crap,
to be deleted

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3wplayer

gl

[jman98]

spysr - IMMEDIATELY run anti-virus software and pray that it can clean this up. If not, be prepared to lose everything on your PC and to have to reinstall the whole thing from scratch.

This should illustrate the dangers of downloading off the net and why if you must do this, you need to run a virus scanner on anything you download BEFORE you try to play it.

[Heywould3]

i dont download movies of the net but it seems to me that everytime something like this comes up IE virus from file off net. its almost always from P2P and it also seems that the files that are affected are not legal to DL anyway ive never seen a legit or legal file affected with a virus 90% of it is either porn or cams/theater rips. the "everything should be free" idea is jsut stupid. if that were the case then we would all be broke there would be no business and no sence of ownership.

sorry im done.

[45tripp]

I just purchased a Phillips DVD player with Divx. Does that mean my new purchase will soon be obsolete?

No, it's useful.

spysr - IMMEDIATELY run anti-virus software and pray that it can clean this up. If not, be prepared to lose everything on your PC and to have to reinstall the whole thing from scratch.

I dont know if you're speaking from experience but my understanding is that the files are harmless, it's the codec/player you are directed to download that will mess you up.

A recommendation is to try playback with VLC

This should illustrate the dangers of downloading off the net and why if you must do this, you need to run a virus scanner on anything you download BEFORE you try to play it.

Of course you should scan unkown content.

the "everything should be free" idea is jsut stupid.

Nothing is ever free.

gl

[spysr]

Damn. Thanks people. I have Panda running all the time. Hopefully nothing bad happened. Ill check and let you know.

[Midzuki]

its almost always from P2P

ed2k, to be exact.

90% of it is either porn or cams/theater rips

As for the p0rn stuff: invariably DRM-locked .wmv or (less-frequently) .mov.
But now there seems not to exist "100%-safe" file types anymore :-(

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