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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?"

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  1. I am surprised this one did not make it to the pos by mapkinase · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    TA:
    Panda's advisory last week revealed that the 100KB file is in fact adware, which "downloads and runs files, changes the DNS configuration and monitors accesses to several adult websites". zCodec, formally known as Adware/ZCodec or Adware/EMediacodec, affects most versions of Windows and was first detected last week, Panda said.
    I am a little bit confused with the modality of the post. Is anyone in doubt that this is quite nasty piece of soft?
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    I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
  2. Freaky coincidence by Asmor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was able to connect fine this morning, then for some reason many sites stopped working. After various troubleshooting, I discovered that my computer had been changed from obtaining the DNS automatically to specifying 4.2.2.2

    Anyone have any idea what might have happened? I didn't download or install anything in the time frame that this happened.

  3. Fire! by Randseed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fire twinklers and a full spread of light balls! Fukkkkov!