Unable to install an XVID codec for 64-bit Windows 7

[catchaat]

I am not able to view streaming videos that require the XVID codec as I am not able to install the XVID codec in my system with Windows 7 64 bit OS. I have a system with an Intel Core i3 processor.

[jagabo]

What do you mean you can't install the Xvid codec? What happens when you try? Maybe you just need to be logged in with an admin account?

[catchaat]

when I go a site which requires the XVID codec for eg:"http://www.freefilesoft.net/xvid_dl/?ref=175493"... the website asks me to install the XVID Setup.exe.... but even afterI install the file that they provide... the web-page still asks for the Codec to be installed

[jagabo]

I doubt that's really the Xvid codec -- and I'm not going to download it to find out (I have Xvid installed already) because this is a very common method of spreading malware.

If it really is a codec I suspect you have a 64 bit vs 32 bit problem. Under 64 bit Windows, 32 bit programs require 32 bit codecs, 64 bit programs require 64 bit codecs.

[catchaat]

what do you thin I should do to resolve this problem?????

[jagabo]

Avoid that web site? Obviously I haven't seen every web site in the world, but I have never seen a site that streamed Xvid encoded video.

[Almost Human]

My Windows 7 32 bit plays Xvid videos natively in WMP and Media Center. I'm almost positive that 64 bit also will play them without any other codec being installed.

[catchaat]

No its not working........ i want to watch the video... but dunno how.......

[Noahtuck]

No its not working........ i want to watch the video... but dunno how.......

Dude!!!
You are not going to through that site!!!

Did you even bother to read any of the replies about this ?!?!?!

what do you thin I should do to resolve this problem?????

NOTHING!

Forget about it!!!!!

Avoid that web site? Obviously I haven't seen every web site in the world, but I have never seen a site that streamed Xvid encoded video.

Exactly!!!!!

This is a hell of a coincidence!!
Within the last few days i did a google search for a live concert from several years ago and i came upon a site that looked exactly like the one linked to, no matter what i did or what link i clicked on, it wanted me to download some bogus .exe file to install their BS "Xvid" codec!!!


Not gonna happen!!!!!!

catchaat, if you downloaded the bogus .exe from that site and installed it thinking you were installing some kind of Xvid codec to play their streaming video, you now have something on your PC you do NOT want to have!!!!!!

[mail2tom]

Get a legitimate copy of the Xvid codec. It appears the software on that web site is just a vehicle to install adware based "clickpotato" and a variety of other unwanted things including Browser Help Objects or toolbars, and homepage hijacker with the lure to get "free TV" and other streaming material. Oddly enough it's called a "sponsored" version of the Xvid codec. Funny, I thought Xvid was GNU licensed software.

[jagabo]

Submit the program to an online malware scanner and you'll see it contains malware.