Talk:3wPlayer

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there many people who come across this rogue media player. But most unaware of the risk of installing it. At least the users of wikipedia will get to know what sort of software it is. I have a personal experience with this which troubled me and wasted my time a lot. this is the start other expert users will enrich the article. Narendrafd 11:02, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up, Narendrafd; I can't enrich the article with anything but at least it saved ME a lot of trouble, although I've had a similar experience with AntiVermins. Rotten Venetic 09:39, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Freddyzdead 01:42, 2 August 2007 (UTC)I tried this in a sandbox with VirtualPC 2004. While it's not as malicious as some malware, it does install keyloggers and such, and by its own admission in the Licence agreement, it phones home with data collected from you. Nobody should install this. The content is probably porno, anyway. It was in my case. (The Simpsons Movie)

Wildman Productions is obviously a fake. The domain was created on 2007-08-08 and the files it provides are virus ridden.

Yes thanks for this article saved me a lot of future trouble but it says "Actually you do not need to install additional software to extract the movie file beneath. PERL scripts are available on the internet that decode the original movie file and convert it into watchable forms without having to download malicious software." where do people get the PERL script from? scoreed —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.59.158.40 (talk) 23:43, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Does someone care enough to merge information from Go.play3w into this article? Psilocybin 23:10, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

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This article has some self-references that need to be fixed. There is no reason for Wikipedia to be mentioned. It's also not understood what "these links" and "this page" refer to. --Sbluen 17:02, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Recently a Fix was uploaded for the Problem created by someone encoding an .Avi file so it must use the 3WPlayer program. It is at:- http://www.torrentbox.com/torrent_details?id=127780 A Software review of this Fix is located at:- http://forums.torrentbox.com/viewtopic.php?p=130611#130611

[edit] Questionable refs

I removed the following lines:

"Also there are two more utilities in existence. One at Mininova forum has source code included. This has not been tested, but the forum describes how this malware encrypts the file. The other one is available at Wildman Productions website. This has been tested and it works.

There is also a new variation of this malware named DivoCodec. The utility from Wildman Productions works on files altered by this malware too."

For one, it sounds like an advertisement for the site (in my opinion), and two, it seems a tad irresponsible to direct people to decrypt a bogus file because some people in a forum say that that the script might work. Most of the files are not even the movie you're after. From what I've read, it's easier to remove the file and not even mess with the 3wplayer to begin with. The ref link provided ([2]) leads the reader to a similar site (wiki.multimedia-->mininova) so advertising it again and claiming that it works seems redundant.Pinkadelica 04:33, 11 September 2007 (UTC) Bold text

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[edit] 3wCodec devised by the MPAA?

Look, I'm no fan of the MPAA and the way it has operated, but the fact is that it is potentially liabelous that comment, and I recomend it is removed. Hpka 22:27, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RiyoCodec

Does anyone know if this is the same virus infected program, repackaged with a new name? Members at my forum have reported being referred to install this from a torrent download, which didn't make the video viewable, so I suspect its the same story, new name.