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- justinjacobs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34Gosh darn it, no Linux version. ;-)
- holotone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Direct link to nastyware website:
http://zcodec.com/ - johnsto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I downloaded this codec the other week. It was brilliant and way better than xvid and divx and x264 all combined. I've now got full-length DVD-quality movies fitting into only a couple of kilobytes each. Everyone should use it forever and ever.
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12"Most tech-savvy folks use codec packs anyway."
I hope you're not being serious. Codec packs are notorious for being loaded with malware. Most tech-savvy folks use VLC Player, which can play pretty much anything right out of the box. - k00ld00d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I checked out the site (www.zcodec.com) and it's quite obvious it's bogus. "Therms of Use"? "Copyright 2005"? And the "Therms of Use"/Terms of Use says that "Components bundled with our software may report to Licensor and/or its affiliates the installation status of certain marketing offers, such as toolbars, and also generalized installation information, such as language preference and operating system version, to assist Licensor in its product development (!!). No personal information will be communicated to VCODEC or its affiliates during this process. Licensor may offer additional components through our version checking/update system (!!). These components include: Toolbar (!!), Popup advertising solution (!!), Commercial homepage manager (!!!), Commercial messenger (!!)." It still doesn't imply viruses or spyware, but there are a couple of similar terms in there...
- maninblac1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I got nabbed by this one's big brother, intcodec, *tear* stupid porn. I knew it was dangerous, but i wanted to see it anyway. Then the bells and whistles went off my spyware, adware, AV and firewalls went nuts. Then i swiftly rocked the *****'s ass and showed it whose boss.
Hey, at least the terms of agreement state that it can install those apps, but who's going to read that? - ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10anyone notice how he spelt TermsOfUse :p
and its only 100kb!!
if this isnt dogdy i dunno what is - Fifty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11If I were to make an adware/spyware program (I never would, this is just hypothetical), the only thing in my "Therms of Use" would be:
All your base will be belong to us. - RubeusEsclair, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Also notice that the 'Therms' of use was stolen straight from vcodec. Perhaps they are the same people? It says right in there that it includes popups and toolbars, among other things.
- Hellman109, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Porn sites have been doing the codec bundled with adware angle for a while now, I saw it years ago.*
*Purely for research purposes, naturally - dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8lmao.
You should have tweaked your settings more. I got my entire video collection (about 300 movies) down to 3 bytes! Still DVD quality. - explorer509, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Contact Information for these scum.
ZCodec Inc
Abrahamen Biderman (webmaster@zcodec.com)
5624 17th Ave
Brooklyn
New York
NY,11204-1834
US
Tel. +718.2364275 - thatbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+73 bytes for DVD quality? Using this cutting edge video codec, I was able to losslessly Web 2.0 upsample gradient AJAX all of my DVDs to 2160p - I'm experiencing HD era 2.0, today!
- explorer509, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Shows home and business addresses and phone numbers, the name is spelled different but the business address is the same. Call this dude and give him hell!
http://www.google.com/search?q=Abraham+Biderman,+new+york&hl=en&lr=&pb=f&sa=X&oi=rwp&ct=title - ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Most tech-savvy folks use codec packs anyway."
I hate to agree with a Vegan, but I'm sorry: codec packs are for noobs. If a video won't play, I identify the FourCC and find the actual codec. That's what geeks do. We DON'T run random programs that promise us they will install everything we need. - holotone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Granted, the tech savvy among us most likely won't be fooled; However, the hope is with enough publicity and pressure, these folks will fold before they have a chance to infect the rest of the rabble...
- holotone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5An interesting side note is that this malware makes modifications to "DNS configuration" (I'm assuming via HOSTS) to redirect traffic meant for legitimate websites wherever they would like; ie, you type in google.com and are redirected to "nastware.com", a website set up to either update their software , install new malware, or serve you ads in place of the website you were looking for, or whatever they would like. If they were smart, they would make the fake website look the same as the legit version, with all nefarious activity taking place in the background...
- mendicitis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I don't want anything with a cutting edge near my trojan. Seriously though, people who fall for this need a battery replacement for their outdated BS detector.
- erikuma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There are too many scumbag out there. This bastards (I've checked the address) doesn't have legitimate address. Funny thing is, the phone number was right 2 weeks ago, and now the line is closed!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Its a shame that most computer users are so unsophisticated that they fall for this *****.
Then again, its also irritating that there are so many god damned codecs that you have to have in order to play back media on any PC. Codec packs like the klite one are great, but it would be so much better is ***** codecs like real, QT, and all of the old irrelevant ones weren't used any more in the first place. - frukt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4mplayer. done.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Do they even have the right to use images from Pulp Fiction, Sin City and Korn?
- szelij, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Most tech-savvy folks use codec packs anyway.
- Erroneus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3According to online scanners, it contains Trjoan Zblob.
Has been reported to Avast, since it don't triggers anything in their current DB. - TechHerder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is the scum of the internet. I am glad there are sites like Digg which allow people to uncover this nasty stuff so that others can protect themselves.
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=xp+rootkit+remover - uidzero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"therms of use"
duh. The "h" is silent ;-) - Garda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For those of you interested
therm is a unit that describes heat
1 therm = 1.054×10^8J - thatbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ffmpeg, real alternative, quicktime alternative, haali media splitter
1, 2, 3, 4, done. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Are virus detectors catching anything lately?
- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"... and the only thing you could play meanwhile was pong. and photoshop."
God damn straight. Still have my original 1975 Atari Pong Game, and the thing still works!!! I’ve since moved on to Sinistar and Tron though, but sold the Tron upright cabinet a couple years ago.
As for Photoshop, yes, from 1990 to 1997 I was charging my clients $65/hour for my graphic design expertise/know-how, and Photoshop was one of my tools of the trade (along with QuarkXPress, Fontographer, Illustrator, Kai’s Power Tools, Bryce, Strata Studio Pro, Painter, etc.)... yeah, those were the days... all these cheap ***** nowdays are convinced that for $15/hour and armed with MS Office and a clipart CDROM that their W2 slave receptionists can handle the "graphic design" duties, and that is why stuff just looks so ***** up these days. People just don't care about aesthetics anymore. I believe that putting the power of the internet in the hands of the average ***** helped kill the effect of importance of the graphic designer. - NickYF19, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ever hear of SpyAxe, SpywareQuake, or SpyFalcon? Same people are behind this.
What usually happens is a video on some web page won't play and you are told that you need a codec to view it. Many times it's on a porn page but not always. So people click the link to get the codec and it's downloaded from zcodec.com. Most people don't go to zcodec looking for a codec; they are given a link to download.
Looks like McAfee SiteAdvisor hasn't figured out this is bad yet: http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/zcodec.com/ - antitab, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You're all wrong. REAL geeks reverse engineer the codec and write a comliant implementation from scratch.
- yasth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2EH CCCP rocks, and is malware free. I recommend it as a starting point.
Now, real geeks compile ffdshow from SVN. (It really does do most everything). - Sweetdelight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3http://www.videolan.org/
also supports a whole slew of OS's - yasth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah this codec is amazing, I mean it really is, but well I had lots of "art images" on my drive, and well video is just a selection of images right, so I strung them into a video and encoded it, I wanted lossless encoding so the entire 290gb takes up 4kb, but I know I could have stored the entire file into its own attribute section if I had just accepted a minimal quality loss. I mean really, next I am going to make all my web page images single frame videos, I'll save a bundle on bandwidth.
- LeeDoyle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The sad thing is that most none techy peopel will fall for this. SO i guess they dont mind everyone talking about it as most people who will read it wont fall for it anyway. Most people use codec packs that come with VLC or k-lite media player... which both rock and are virus/spyware/trojan free but then again if they are downloaded from the right places... sites add-on there own crap.
Shame really - SIGINT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From what I gather, the trends of these malware proponents is that they are targeting these file sharers and not gullible computer users as it were a year ago.
I don't think it's RIAA or MPAA per se, but most probably these people are the ones who are more likely go through with an install just to get to the video/mp3/etc. I know I have, and in my case, thank goodness I was pointed to Doom9, but what of the others? - nocountries, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2bad news for pornsurfers!
- ogre2112, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2... and the only thing you could play meanwhile was pong. and photoshop.
- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A friend of mine showed me a quick demo of encoding some raw HD DV footage into the H.264 codec, and I must admit I’m quite impressed with the quality as well as the relatively small storage footprint required... by “small storage footprint” I would estimate that a two hour HD feature could be stored in less than 2GB if done properly.
- thund3rstruck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1^^ Well don't bother with DivX. When building my DVD movie server I was really excited that instead of the 3.5TB I thought I was going to need to store my collection, I could use DivX and @ 700MB a movie, a single 500GB would work out.
Then I actually encoded a few movies with Divx (Blade, Blair Witch project, Cold Mountain, etc) and on my 60" HDTV, the picture looked terrible. Pixelation, fuzzy edges, and strange looking blacks ruined my excitement real quick. - mchschadwick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This discussion brings up other questions for me. What are you guys using to convert your videos and decrease the size? What format are you using? I use videoLAN for viewing but haven't taken the time to convert what I have stored.
- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Dammit! I really had my sights set on a Mac version, but they don't have one available!!! I've been bored for the last 13 years with no viruses!!!
- marccarroll, on 09/22/2008, -1/+1I couldn't even access the site - cleaver NOD32
- Flashcop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0stupid me :(
i downloaded this and my computer was infected for days
eventually got rid of it by installing norton antivirus
note: i did not scan my computer; as soon as i installed norton - it was gone - Wooism, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Boy am I glad I don't use Windows ;-)
- blaize2006, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3SOFTWARE INSTALLATION: Components bundled with our software may report to Licensor and/or its affiliates the installation status of certain marketing offers, such as toolbars, and also generalized installation information, such as language preference and operating system version, to assist Licensor in its product development. No personal information will be communicated to VCODEC or its affiliates during this process. Licensor may offer additional components through our version checking/update system. These components include: Toolbar, Popup advertising solution, Commercial homepage manager, Commercial messenger.
they outright tell you it's spyware/adware lol
LinuX pwns it lmao - ayeroxor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2"Then i [...] showed it whose boss."
I'd have to guess yours. Were you at work? Why are you asking us? - Ninjab3ar, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6what r u guys talking about? i downloaded it and now my video quality is up by over 40%!! you guys are crazy.
inacurate. -
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