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Re: VLC media player 3.0.0 'WeatherWax' Release Candidate 3

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Post by RaleyField » Tue, Dec 26, 2017, 4:45 PM UTC

RaleyField wrote: post #37

johnhattan wrote: post #8

I just tried today's daily Windows x64 installer, and Windows Defender is blocking it, reporting that it's infected with "Trojan:Win32/Fuerboos.D!cl" Might be a false positive, but I'm not moving forward until I know.

VirusTotal doesn't show anything. Can you provide url & sha256 of the installer?

Seems like a false positive, Windows Defender stopped reporting it as infected after definitions update. sha256 of the file in question is f7540af3ad4aa7e6f02c850bfe428d65e481f8b4c00c2927f72b62450f4ec42b .

Re: VLC media player 3.0.0 'WeatherWax' Release Candidate 3

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Post by snvzz » Tue, Dec 26, 2017, 6:27 PM UTC

collyw wrote: post #41

snvzz wrote: post #23

I've always found VLC's UX very awkward. Very happy with mpv.io. On Windows, MPC-HC until it's been abandoned recently; Replaced it with MPC-QT, which is a mpc-hc-like UX but implemented using libmpv.

Its a video player (well thats what it primarily gets used for). The vast majority of use cases are simple enough that the UI doesn't get in the way. (Though I do agree it hasn't got the best UI).

>The vast majority of use cases are simple enough that the UI doesn't get in the way.

I disagree. VLC gets on the way all the time. It is irritating to use. Even the most basic controls do not make sense.

Re: VLC media player 3.0.0 'WeatherWax' Release Candidate 3

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Post by byte1918 » Tue, Dec 26, 2017, 9:31 PM UTC

eitland wrote: post #16

johnhattan wrote: post #8

I just tried today's daily Windows x64 installer, and Windows Defender is blocking it, reporting that it's infected with "Trojan:Win32/Fuerboos.D!cl" Might be a false positive, but I'm not moving forward until I know.

Tried submitting it to virustotal? Edit: I might be close to paranoid but I've seen to many cases of nice freeware or open source software getting compromised or even selling out to adware.

Downloaded from: https://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win64/

Scan results (2 / 59): https://www.virustotal.com/ro/file/6087b1227819ed921f5cd68d6...