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Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan?

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan?
Date 2019-01-14 14:13 +1300
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On 2019-01-14 00:22:10 +0000, gtr said:

> A friend is adamant I see a movie.  Along the (unplayable) video he 
> sent me there is a unix compressed archive named "CodecSetup-Mac". I've 
> uncompressed it and there sure is a lot of stuff going on in there.
> 
> Elsewhere I see on the next that others believe it is a trojan hourse 
> for Windows, but there is also this Mac version.  What know he of all 
> this?
> 
> I think Perian use to provide a lot of codecs but they are now gone, 
> and wonder if a utility that *seems* to purport to provide support for 
> newer videos is valid.  I assume it is not and I have ditched it, but 
> I'd like to know what history there is of this.
> 
> Perhaps I should get some expensive antivirus software--JOKE!  I'm only joking!

VLC can play a lot of different video formats (not all though) and it's free:
<https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html>

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CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2019-01-13 16:22 -0800
  Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-13 19:34 -0500
  Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2019-01-14 14:13 +1300
  Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2019-01-13 21:12 -0600
  Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-14 03:36 +0000
    Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2019-01-13 20:22 -0800
      Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2019-01-14 19:17 +1300
      Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-14 06:53 -0500
  Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2019-01-13 23:05 -0700
  Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-14 12:41 -0500
    Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? André G. Isaak <agisaak@gm.invalid> - 2019-01-14 11:48 -0700
      Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-14 16:22 -0500
      Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-14 16:25 -0500
    Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-14 22:33 +0000
      Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-14 18:18 -0500
        Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-15 05:23 +0000
          Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2019-01-14 21:32 -0800
            Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-15 19:35 -0500
              Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2019-01-15 18:40 -0800
                Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-16 08:24 +0000
                Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2019-01-16 17:53 -0800
                Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2019-01-17 16:04 +1300
                Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2019-01-16 19:49 -0800
                Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2019-01-16 23:16 -0800
                Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-17 18:53 +0000
                Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2019-01-17 10:55 -0800
                Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-18 01:13 +0000
                Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2019-01-17 18:42 -0800
                Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-18 09:12 +0000
          Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-15 19:33 -0500
      Re: CodecSetup-Mac - Trojan? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2019-01-14 21:31 -0800

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