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Sorry if this is off topic, or this ain't a virus.  Here's the story.... I'm a big fan of onNuetral' videos and they released hi-res videos on their site.   But you have to download them.  So I went and downloaded in action... zlob trojan.avi.  So I went and downloaded it.  I launched it and only the sound would play.  My cpu  usage went to 100% (I have intel pentium D dual core processor)  and it would play it as a sound file yet it was .avi So then I tried to open it with quicktime and the header of it was Blaster worm when the file was called In action... zlob trojan.  Here is a demonstartion of it: I uploaded it myself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04hIAXDB1AM

Now...  here's the weird thing now, I scanned my pc with a boot time scan.  MBAM and SAS full system scan.  Blacklight rootkit scan.  Kasperky online scan and a hijackthis log while everything was clean.  But now Windows Media Player doesn't work anymore.  Every time I open WMP it's extremly laggy and my cpu usage goes high.  It only shows an icon of a music note in the middle.  i'm getting a bit worried about this.  Quicktime works fine but the person who made the videos said DivX and Winamp can watch them.  The thing is i'm worried I got a macro virus that affects Windows Media Player.  where can I submit it for analysis (my whole windows media player program.  Or do I tell the link to the site I got the download from?

I believe this might be a virus, but I'm not entirely sure.  Please forgive me if this was a false alarm.
Also please forgive me if I posted this in the wrong spot.

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Re: Where can I go and tell avast! about a new virus threat (I think)?
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2008, 03:44:55 PM »
Why don't you download and install Windows Media Player again?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx

To submit a file for analysis, zip it and send to virus (at) avast (dot) com
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Re: Where can I go and tell avast! about a new virus threat (I think)?
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2008, 06:05:53 PM »
I tried submitting the movie file to Virustotal, it failed to upload (it says it was too big 20MB)

I'm reinstalling WMP hopefully that will fix it.

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Re: Where can I go and tell avast! about a new virus threat (I think)?
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2008, 06:17:46 PM »
Dang it, Vista can't download it, so now I'm ****ed.   Now what do I do? I use Vista and I can't find the download page anywhere.

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Re: Where can I go and tell avast! about a new virus threat (I think)?
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2008, 06:32:46 PM »
Where have you searched ?

This search string 'download windows media player 11' returns many hits, http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=download+windows+media+player+11. There are numerous file download sites, snapfiles, download.com, majorgeeks.com, etc. etc. which I would have thought would have it. More locations than you can shake a stick at.

This is just one of the hits, filehippo.com, http://www.filehippo.com/download_windows_media_player/.
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Re: Where can I go and tell avast! about a new virus threat (I think)?
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2008, 06:57:29 PM »
I can't, because Windows Media Player is a part of the Vista installation I will have to reinstall or do some hacking (going and deleting registry items) to corrupt Windows Media Player, then it will force reinstall.

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Re: Where can I go and tell avast! about a new virus threat (I think)?
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2008, 09:05:23 PM »
WMP might well be an integration in Vista, that shouldn't stop you from downloading wmp 11 though.

I don't have Vista and my WMP is 10.5 I believe, that has a Troubleshooting link in the Help, this loads a Microsoft page, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/10/troubleshooting.aspx?locale=409&geoid=f2&version=10.0.0.4058&userlocale=809, that is obviously for wmp 10 so there may be a corresponding page for wmp11.
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Re: Where can I go and tell avast! about a new virus threat (I think)?
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2008, 11:09:07 PM »
I tried submitting the movie file to Virustotal, it failed to upload (it says it was too big 20MB)
The limit is 10Mb.

Download the WMP 11 for XP:
Windows Media Player 11 is designed to work with all editions of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), and can also be used to restore Windows Media Player and related technologies to N and KN editions of Windows Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en
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Re: Where can I go and tell avast! about a new virus threat (I think)?
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2008, 11:46:57 PM »
ok, the "for windows xp" part made me think that it doesn't support vista.

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Re: Where can I go and tell avast! about a new virus threat (I think)?
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2008, 11:49:45 PM »
ok, the "for windows xp" part made me think that it doesn't support vista.
There are very few XP programs that don't run on Vista.   There are quite a few Vista designed programs
that don't work well on XP.
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Re: Where can I go and tell avast! about a new virus threat (I think)?
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2008, 11:52:39 PM »
ok, the "for windows xp" part made me think that it doesn't support vista.
But did it work? Is your WMP working now?
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Re: Where can I go and tell avast! about a new virus threat (I think)?
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2008, 12:26:01 AM »
I'm actually currently busy and I will try that later.

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Re: Where can I go and tell avast! about a new virus threat (I think)?
« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2008, 12:48:12 AM »
I'm actually currently busy and I will try that later.
Never mind... just post back the results.
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