Home Codec Pack
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| Threat Level: | 100 % (High) |
| Infected Computers: | 6 |
| First Seen: | August 16, 2011 |
| Last Seen: | July 23, 2019 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Home Codec Pack is a fake codec pack created to interfere with a computer's normal operation. According to your ESG malware researchers, Home Codec Pack interferes with normal viewing of videos on a Windows Operating System. Home Codec Pack will alter the computer's settings so that it will display a message reading 'Your codec version is too old' instead of playing video files. If the computer user falls for this message, he/she will then be leaded to a website and prompted to pay for Home Codec Pack. This malware threat works similarly to rogue security applications. In fact, a rogue anti-malware program associated with Home Codec Pack is Anti-Malware Lab, which also displays the 'Your codec version is too old' message.
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How Does Home Codec Pack Infect Your Computer?
According to our ESG security researchers, malware like Home Codec Pack typically enters a computer with the help of a Trojan. Trojan horses, or Trojans for short, are malware threats that exploit vulnerabilities in a computer's security to deliver a harmful payload. Usually, a computer user downloads a Trojan inadvertently. This is due to the fact that Trojans are often cleverly disguised as other harmless files. For example, Trojans may be disguised as system updates from a third-party source or as a popular file on a file sharing network. Home Codec Pack is typically associated with Trojans distributed as fake video codecs on adult video sites and file sharing networks. Others sources for a Trojan infection include spam email attachments and corrupted Flash applications on the Internet.
Using Common Sense When Dealing With Home Codec Pack
Our ESG malware researchers strongly advise you to cultivate safe Internet browsing habits. This means being careful with links, files, or emails that are of unknown origin. To avoid being infected with Home Codec Pack, it is also advisable to keep a firewall and an anti-malware scanner running on your computer at all times. If you have been infected with Home Codec Pack, our ESG malware researchers recommend you to remove Home Codec Pack automatically with an anti-malware program. Remember, Home Codec Pack is not what it claims to be. Ignore all messages from Home Codec Pack, especially the 'Your codec version is too old' message. Also, you should not pay for this useless product, or enter your credit card information into Home Codec Pack's website. At the very least, you would be giving the criminals behind Home Codec Pack the means to continue releasing new malware.
File System Details
| # | File Name |
Detections
Detections: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on
infected computers as reported by SpyHunter.
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|---|---|---|
| 1. |
C:\Documents and Settings\ |
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| 2. |
C:\Documents and Settings\ |
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| 3. |
C:\Documents and Settings\ |
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| 4. | FRed32.dll | |
| 5. |
C:\Documents and Settings\ |
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| 6. | c:\WINDOWS\system32\c_726535.nls | |
| 7. |
C:\Documents and Settings\ |
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| 8. |
C:\Documents and Settings\ |
Messages
The following messages associated with Home Codec Pack were found:
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File cannot be played. Codec not found
Your player cannot display this video file. Update codec |
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This video cannot be played due to old version of your codecs
Update codec |
| Windows Media Player cannot find the specified file. Be sure the path is typed correctly. If it is, the file does not exist at the specified location, or the computer where the file is stored is offline. |
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Your codec version is too old
This video format is not supported |
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