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MVM
join:2003-11-04
Santa Rosa, CA
| "Fake MP3 Trojan" Detected On "27%" Of PCs When a user tries to play one of the infected media files, he or she is prompted to download a file called PLAY_MP3.exe
VERY Inaccurate. MxAfee mest be wanting to sell useless, 20th-century product.
For starters, opening the file with VLC MEDIA PLAYER, definitely won't infect a computer. Maybe not with Winamp, either, but the clueless who use Windows Media Player, especially when started from file extension association, OTOH, get treated to a demonstration of all of the "Neat Things" that the DRM features there can do, or, merely get to see what Windows thinks is "best" to do when told to open a file that has the wrong extension.
Finally... 27% of WHAT?119,000 computers out of almost 436,000 scanned, an infection rate of 27%.
Deception. Hype. 436,000 is a long way from the "All PCs" the headline was crafted to sound like.
-NK | |
|  | XknightHawkX
join:2003-02-13
Morton, IL
clubs:
| 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. | |
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DOStradamus
MVM
join:2003-11-04
Santa Rosa, CA
| Re: "Fake MP3 Trojan" Detected On "27%" Of PCs 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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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
Premium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·Cox HSI
 ·AT&T Southwest
| So now you're guilty for just indexing torrents.... ... There you go.
Sell gas to a guy who uses the car to rob a bank.... You're guilty!
Sell the gun that's used in the crime--- you're guilty.
Manufacture ammunition that he buys for use in the crime--- you're guilty.
Man.... pretty soon, *everyone* is going to be a criminal.
... and honestly, that's probably the point.
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"Regulatory capitalism is when companies invest in lawyers, lobbyists, and politicians, instead of plant, people, and customer service." - former FCC Chairman William Kennard (A real FCC Chairman, unlike the current Corporate Spokesperson in the job!) | |
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UK gets first Fibrecity
It would benefit consumers for local governments to install municipal fiber systems throughout the United States. Residents could then be able to select the services they want to subscribe to carried on the municipal fiber system. Service providers would not have to maintain their own outside plant. I do not see anything wrong with installing the fiber in sewers as long as they do not install web cams in my toilets.