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by jimford
March 31st, 2014, 5:24 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: 'Funny' XviD file extensions?
Replies: 6
Views: 4570

Re: 'Funny' XviD file extensions?

These jobs are almost certainly intentionally b0rked by the uploader, in an attempt to encourage dumb enough windoze users to run the included exe. Correct. And these posts are flooding the newsgroups at the moment. The newsgroup world is becoming a torrent world >:( Looks like I might have come a ...
by jimford
March 31st, 2014, 4:25 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: 'Funny' XviD file extensions?
Replies: 6
Views: 4570

Re: 'Funny' XviD file extensions?

Thanks 'sander' for the quick and informative reply.

So, do the 'funny' additions to the Xvid extensions have any significance eg Xvid-aWR?

Jim
by jimford
March 31st, 2014, 1:54 pm
Forum: General Help
Topic: 'Funny' XviD file extensions?
Replies: 6
Views: 4570

'Funny' XviD file extensions?

I'm new to the NZBD world, so need a bit of hand holding! Some files I've downloaded have odd file extensions eg Xvid-aWR and won't play with VLC. The file directory also has a a sub-directory 'Codec' which contains a MS executable 'Setup.exe', which I'm deeply suspicious of (and wouldn't be of use ...