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zCodec Video Codec Is a Trojan

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who-is-watching-whom? dept.

Bride of Chucky writes "There's a new video codec out there that claims to offer 'up to 40 percent better video quality' but that resets your computer's DNS settings — opening the way for Trojans, rootkits, or whatever. Techworld warns that zCodec looks professional enough, is widely available, and comes in at 100KB. What's the bet the media companies are behind this somewhere?"

2 of 188 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Rather than the conspiracy theory. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think that companies learned their lesson from Sony's rootkit fiasco.

    In that instance, I thinks it was a mere (although major) fuck-up of buying the wrong DRM-solution. Sony's managers don't get DRM, the DRM-solution's developers don't either and decided to modify the OS. It was bad execution, not bad intent*.

    * No, the intention to introduce DRM itself is not bad, you fucking hippies. Shut the fuck up, please.

  2. I blame Windows by jofi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    if it weren't so insecure this problem wouldn't exist.

    --
    Blame the user, not the software.