install new video codecs

Discussion in 'Software' started by smiley1029, Oct 9, 2010.

  1. smiley1029

    smiley1029 Private First Class

    i cant seem to play any videos or do video chatting.
    it says ihave to install codecs and leads me to an unknown website..
    i have all my flash players updated..
    i cant even watch youtube videos , whats wrong!?
     
    smiley1029, Oct 9, 2010
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  2. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    Browser? Flavor of windows?
     
    plodr, Oct 9, 2010
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  3. satrow

    satrow Major Geek Extraordinaire

    "it says ihave to install codecs and leads me to an unknown website.."

    That reads like an infection - Read and follow this thread carefully, if it does not fix your problems, make a new topic in the Malware forum with the logs attached that were created
     
    satrow, Oct 9, 2010
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  4. smiley1029

    smiley1029 Private First Class

    i use both internet explorer and firefox and windows xp is what ihave
    i ran malwareanti malware bytes and it said i was infection free!
     
    smiley1029, Oct 10, 2010
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  5. samtal

    samtal Corporal

    samtal, Oct 10, 2010
    #5

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