Be Careful Of Media Files That Ask To Download A Codec!

[Arct1k]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7389529.stm

Rgds

[johnrobholmes]

reason number two that I don't fileshare. A codec for an mp3 file? silly geese.

[suicideneil]

I never download stuff like that, I just go to youtube and favourite all the cool songs, so I never pay for new albums anymore, har har har...

[DRIFT_BUGGY]

I never download stuff like that but I have to keep a eye on the wife and kids as they have no idea

[Serum]

You can check your PC very easy with this tool;

http://www.hijackthis.de/

Works like a charm.

Simple download the tool, run it from there, and select 'system scan' copy/paste the information in the text-box on the website and the diagnose starts.

I started using HijackThis almost 2yrs ago. I upgraded Media Player and all of a sudden my homepage changed and I couldn't change it back - it was grayed out in the IE dialogue panel. I kept going to strange places - def not the places I was entering and was getting pop-ups like crazy. HijackThis helped me ID what piggy backed on MP and was causing the problem. Found it only by the date, those scabs that did this hadn't figured out how to reset the date on the file.

Bottom line, you an be compromised trying to do something completely legitimate.