The Internet has become a major scene for sharing all sorts of media files. These files may have been compressed using different codec’s, some free and some commercial. What is a codec? A codec, in this case, is used to decode compressed data streams in order to make them viewable and audible in a proper player. Watching an AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) video and audio file with compressed data, or other compressed movie formats, may require a proper codec. The amount of codec’s out there amounts to a level that makes it hard for common users to find and install the correct one required to play an eagerly awaited sequence of images. The situation gets even more complicated considering that unscrupulous individuals want to transform the common codec-eagerness into cash in, one way or another, by offering fake codec’s. Read more below about false codec lures, codec’s in general and possible ways to avoid getting scammed…

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eAntivirusPro

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SpywareSecure
Toolbar.Hotbar
Win32.FakeAlert.PCHealthCenter
Zango

MD5 checksum is 92777aeeff2f1cb24c5e794659d0b423 for core.aawdef
MD5 checksum is 28d82295186f308de5a58686afbbfe0d for defs.ref

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