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Topic: PSA: Potential malware found on free-codecs (dot) com (Read 336 times) previous topic - next topic
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PSA: Potential malware found on free-codecs (dot) com

I was looking to download WinMP3Packer and found this link (may include malware, I do not endorse it nor will accept liability if you decide to download anything from it) to free-codecs (dot) com: "hxxps://www (dot) free-codecs (dot) com/winmp3packer_download.htm"

However, the first option, labeled as All-In-One, has 26/60 detections on Virustotal, so is likely malware.

I recommend that you stay far, far away from free-codecs (dot) com. Everything you can get there is likely available elsewhere without the potential of nasty suprises.

Here is the Virustotal report: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/adf42662cdd8eb06360e5492a1d08492c49ca514e22eceee478045f0388a8df7/detection
 

Re: PSA: Potential malware found on free-codecs (dot) com

Reply #2 –
I'm quite amazed that nowadays some (?) people are still using infamous - '90s - codec packs...
Hybrid Multimedia Production Suite will be a platform-indipendent open source suite for advanced audio/video contents production.
Official git: https://forart.it/HyMPS/