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Originally Posted by pussyluver
Does anyone know what those fake Codecs do or down load. Assume it is more than one isssue. I mean specifically. Who are the mofos behind it. Bout time to out 'em all. Maybe a search over at askdamagex might shed some light?
Not gonna down load any of the bastards to findout and fuckup a working machine. I am considering setting a box aside and go ahead and fuck it up to see what the shit does first hand.
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Hi pussyluver,
Let me give you a briefing of what the codec does. I'm assuming it's the one being discussed on other boards and which I've commented on a few time.
The one I got was MovieCommander (read some more here ->
Beware of Trojans Masquerading as Movie Codecs or Players ~ usrbingeek’s musings)
What it does is resets your DNS and basically they have control of your computer.
Now I got it installed via an MGP gallery - the gallery had a video and when you click to watch the video, you could hear the sound but not see the image, or sometimes it's the opposite. Once it's installed, when you go to a sponsor or TGP/MGP what it will do is overwrite the affiliate's code. So basically, if I click your gallery and your affiliate code is ?pussylover by the time I hit the join page, it will say ?crooksusername. This is when the sponsor hasn't caught on. IF the sponsor caught on & killed the account, well then what they do is try to find a similar program until the other program doesn't catch on. If they have nothing to match, well they 'launder' the traffic through trades and cj'ing and then resell it to search engines & traffic brokers.
I've taken many videos of it in action when I had it on my scrap computer, but I had to remove it this week cuz I wanted to install Zango. When I would get to Zango's page, it actually prevented it from showing. Anyhow, the two did not mix. But it must have left some other shit there cuz Zango cut the computer off the net totally.
If I manage to figure out how to make it work again without having to format it, I'll show you samples of it working on your galleries or promos. It's crappy for you & for the sponsor because your clicks are there - but the sales are not so conversions look crap but it's really someone stealing your traffic from the sponsor. *depending on whether the sponsor cut them off or not*