Re: **CAUTION**WMP10 is Malware for sure
- From: "BuddyBoy" <gmvoeth@(nomail)yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 15:32:22 -0700
Hello Itsmee,
I have received emails from two people one had three images
of settings and nothing I have yet received has
made any differences at all in solving my troubles.
It is obvious to me that it is my wanting to use only V1
mp3 tags is what is causing the problems with WMP10
I have tried upgrading WMP to its most recent version
and still it will rewrite my V1 mp3 files and make them V2 tags.
I have used system restore to roll back and still
it rewrites my V1 mp3 files to make V2 out of them.
My home player will not play anything but V1 so
in effect WMP is corrupting my files to make them
incompatible with older hardware players.
There is absolutely no settings in WMP to dictate terms to tell
it how you want it to treat your MP3 files when playing or after playing
or anything at all. If you have not received a reply from me
then either your email got lost a victim of Yahoo spam screener
or the reply I sent went to the wrong email address ???? :-(
I have answered all emails I have received that indicated an answer was necessary.
I do not care what your delusions or misconceptions are regarding
WMP10 because I have certain evidence here on my machine that
WMP10 is behaving as MALWARE by rewriting my MP3 files after I play them.
What I need to do is send someone one of my v1 mp3 files
with all important MD5 text file then let them play the file
and see for themselves the MD5 will change as well
the file will be 4096 bytes larger in size as well
as the V1 tag area will be corrupted.
WMP will not touch any mp3 file that is already V2.
Possibly your mp3 files that you are using to test things
with are V2 and not V1.
I can not forgive Microsoft if they have let WMP write files
when they are fully expected to only be played.
Sincerely,
BuddyBoy
"Itsmee" <martin_e_coleman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ul1MsOsXFHA.796@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> Again, I've gotta say this is not happening here ?! Did you see the email I sent you with the options I have disabled ? Not
> sure if you did as I didn't get a reply :(
>
> Laters.
>
>
> "BuddyBoy" <gmvoeth@(nomail)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:evFvL2kXFHA.2128@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ****** Final Post by me in this thread *******
>>
>> I have investigated by searching for all files
>> that contain the string "AverageLevel" to try
>> and identify the culprate that is writing
>> over my MP3 files and the only conclusion I can
>> arrive at is WMP is behaving exactly as MS intended
>> when it does this aweful thing.
>>
>> My Win XP disk is 2002 and when I look there I can
>> find only one DLL file that has that string but
>> after the installation of SP2 and WMP10 I find
>> that same string in some 70 different system
>> important files.
>>
>> Now I know the chronology of this problem but I am
>> unable to trace programs in the order they are running
>> or I would be able to put a finger on the exact program
>> writing to my mp3 files when I play them with wmp10.
>> The play must complete before the file is written
>> if you interrupt WMP10 in any way it will
>> not corrupt the file before it has completed playing.
>> WMP10 knows it has written a file because it does not
>> seem to repeat itself on a damaged file.
>>
>> I can tell by reading all the troubles in this
>> newsgroup that Microsoft would have all kinds of friends
>> the world over if only it would iron out these bugs
>> in WMP for the common man.
>>
>> Right now the single biggest mistake is that you
>> can not uninstall/reinstall WMP....there is no option
>> that I can tell to do this. People report system damage
>> when they manually try to remove WMP.
>>
>> BuddyBoy
>>
>>
>> "BuddyBoy" <gmvoeth@(nomail)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:eQHI0KOXFHA.3712@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> *** CAUTION to N00bs ****
>>>
>>> I can finally tell you exactly what WMP is doing
>>> to my MP3 files When I play them.
>>>
>>> It adds a V2 tag at the start of the mp3 file
>>> with 4096 bytes total mostly consisting of HEX zeros.
>>>
>>> It corrupts the V1 tag at the end of the file by overwriting
>>> part of it with HEX zeros.
>>>
>>>
>>> It seems to leave all the mp3 data frames alone.
>>>
>>> The file size becomes 4096 bytes larger.
>>>
>>> What this means is if you strip off both the
>>> V1 and V2 tags everything in the middle should
>>> still be intact.
>>>
>>> But WMP10 is definately acting as Malware on my machine
>>> corrupting any mp3 file that is played and not set
>>> to read only.
>>>
>>> I have not tried to play a totally stripped mp3 file yet
>>> but by all accounts it should be playable.
>>>
>>> so it seems
>>> I must not ever use WMP10 to play any file I truly value.
>>> I advise people to be careful with it like anything else.
>>> It does not seem to exhibit this behavior with other peoples.
>>> There is the possibility I have picked up an unknown
>>> virus that has infected WMP something no one else talks about.
>>>
>>> I will try to repair/reinstall WMP10 simply to see if it will
>>> stop this strange, unwanted behavior.
>>> Will post back here if the problem is corrected.
>>>
>>> BuddyBoy
>>>
>>> ***************
>>> "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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