Re: **CAUTION**WMP10 is Malware
- From: "BuddyBoy" <gmvoeth@(nomail)yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 14:32:59 -0700
If the date did not update on the file you were playing then your WMP did not
rewrite your file and means I have a bad version of WMP on my machine.
Can you please go into the ABOUT area of your WMP and tell me what it says there.
IT would be better if you could take a screenie of the about window
for WMP and send it to me at gmvoeth<at>yahoo<dot>com as an attached jpg file.
I need to find out how to clean up my WMP so it will not re-write my MP3 files.
I have never heard of what is happening to me also happen to other people.
Thanx,
BuddyBoy
"Itsmee" <martin_e_coleman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OWJxxy%23WFHA.612@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Nope, afraid not, just created and mp3 for the job, not read only, played the file in full, no change in datestamp and plays OK on
> my Panasonic Discman and all 3 DVD players I have in the house.. Sorry...
>
>
>
> "BuddyBoy" <gmvoeth@(nomail)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:epXlwqvWFHA.2692@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> You can try this yourself.
>> Pick an mp3 file that you know you can burn
>> to a cd-r data disk and play in a regular old
>> DVD/CD player hooked up to your tv set.
>> Take that file and make sure it is not read only.
>> play it with WMP10 then after it plays check the date of the file.
>> It should now be the current date and time because WMP has
>> rewritten it. Now burn this file again to a data disk and try to play
>> it in that same DVD/CD player hooked up to your TV .
>> You should not be able to play it because WMP has written a tag to the front of the file
>> that the DVD/CD players can not deal with.
>>
>> If this phenomena is not noticed by you that the file has been rewritten
>> please post here the before and after results of your test because for
>> me WMP10 always rewrites my mp3 files if they are not READ ONLY.
>> For me...WMP10 is a VIRUS/MALWARE because of its rewriting of my files.
>> I have power DVD and Music Match Jukebox and neither will rewrite the
>> files that they play like WMP10 will.
>> I have noticed that the inclusion of IP tags at the beginning of any
>> MP3 file will make them unplayable on my DVD players so you need a program
>> to remove these IP tags from the header of any MP3 file before you burn them to CD-R.
>>
>>
>> "BuddyBoy" <gmvoeth@(nomail)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:O55c%23FeWFHA.2572@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Windows Media Player IS MALWARE because it
>>> will rewrite an mp3 file after playing it to
>>> insert some kind of strange header that makes your
>>> mp3 data cd-r discs unplayable on regular old DVD and CD players.
>>>
>>> Note the following:
>>> [IMG]http://files.photojerk.com/gmvoeth/MP3HeaderBad.JPG[/IMG]
>>>
>>> The bad headers have a bunch of BinaryHEX ZEROS written to the START OF FILE.
>>>
>>>
>>> [IMG]http://files.photojerk.com/gmvoeth/MP3HeaderGood.JPG[/IMG]
>>>
>>> This is the START of a good mp3 file that will play ok on a regular old
>>> DVD and CD player that will play mp3 data discs.
>>>
>>>
>>> The only way to defend yourselves against what WMP10 does
>>> is as follows:
>>>
>>> 1. make all mp3 files read only.
>>> 2. exit the player before it completes playing the unprotected mp3 file.
>>> 3. Do not use WMP10 to play MP3 files.
>>>
>>> WMP10 is the very first MALWARE I have come across in 10 years of
>>> playing with computers.
>>> And I have done a lot of downloading.
>>>
>>> Comments welcome.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> BuddyBoy
>>>
>>
>>
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>
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