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XknightHawkX

join:2003-02-13
Morton, IL
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reply to DOStradamus
Re: "Fake MP3 Trojan" Detected On "27%" Of PCs

You mean there are people dumb enough to download an exe file to play a media file?

I downloaded a music video once and when I went to play it windows media player it played video saying if you can't see the video file then please visit some site and download this file. I knew not to do that.

If it's a matter of codec the player will say something about not having the codec. At least I'm pretty sure it does.


DOStradamus
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join:2003-11-04
Santa Rosa, CA

I've seen too many fall for this 1-2 punch:

1. They download this innocuous-looking video, which, I'll name "A Horse on"Britney on A Horse". Wait for it, and with (saliva) glands activated, they attempt to play it, and are grreted with failure after failure, no matter what they do.

2. Going back to where they got the file, they see a line "If you have problems playing this video, make sure that you use the "Bedevere's Rabbit" CoDec, available here......

With blood long having departed his brain, for places "South", he "Goes out and pushes that big wooden rabbit into his castle". As this isn't a scene from that great movie(*), our (now, victim), installs that badboy, and....

-NK

(*) Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Before thae days of VCRs, I actually paid to go see it a dozen or so times in the theatres....
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