Anybody have a possible virus due to MPlayer X?

YES!

It's now doing all sorts of strange things in Safari (putting banner ads on my Google search page, creating double green links that create popups etc.) and I don't know how to get rid of it.

It's extremely rare to get stuff like this but now that I have it, I don't want to download so-called "uninstall" software for fear that that will further infect the computer!

This is a major problem for OS X -- Apple should get on a fix immediately!!

Oh

My

God.

You do NOT KNOW how much trouble you saved me. I would NEVER have solved this -- not in ten million years. I was about to upgrade to Mavericks -- which I did NOT want to do, among other drastic things.

Yes. Pirate Bay. But NO USUAL "Are you sure you want to open this application blah blah blah" message from happy Security.

These creeps are really, crafty, aren't they? How much work it must have taken for someone to create that.

I'll never take an app I download from the Internet for granted as "safe" again.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

Yes. Pirate Bay.

If you choose to use torrent sites and download software which costs money elsewhere and therefore makes it pirated software, then you must expect additions to that software which may include malware, adware, etc, etc.

No, I totally agree, I'm not a freeloader - I just was looking for an old Japanese movie. It was the first time I had been on that site for about 8 years. Trust me, I pay for 100% of my software, music and I have an Apple TV for movies, so . . . not a regular dick.

But I sure learned my lesson that Macs are not jerk-proof at all any more. I've been using Macs since 1985 so it's kind of ingrained to just not worry about that stuff, but now that there are clouds, and NSAs, and Googles that want to swallow the Earth and everyone on it -- like I said, whoever made that malware took a **** of a lot of trouble doing it. If these *&(*(s just used their talents to doing good, the world would be a better place. But then, we wouldn't have a school-shooting-of-the-week every week, would we?

The Bad Guys have finally twigged to the Mac so my complacency ended, literally, today. I will NEVER visit any suspect sites or open any unknown software again.

I rescued my wife from her laptop PC about five years ago . . . if there were a way to actually see a computer virus with the human eye, her computer would have been crusted in huge, dangling growths of putrid malware -- and it was completely unrescuable.

Thank God for miliaz here . . . I would have literally ripped the guts out of my computer to get rid of that filthy "thing" that was infecting it.

I can upgrade to Mavericks any time I want, for free, but I just don't want.

I still have a Power PC G5 sitting on the floor next to me, running Leopard. I would like to keep it that way. My wife's Mac Mini is running Mavericks but she doesn't need all the stuff I have that will instantly be out of date if I upgrade.

Again, mercy bow cups, you are all what my DiskWarrior and Rebuild Desktop used to be.

Cheers

Nick

This worked perfectly for me too! I went through my library and removed items that include "vsearch" and found some in the cache.

However, once I used the downloadable .zip file on this guys site it worked in 2 seconds, restarted, and perfectly working again.

Here's the link to his .zip file directly. Save yourself the headache and just use his genius!

http://www.thesafemac.com/art/

Nicholas Robinson1 wrote:

This is a major problem for OS X -- Apple should get on a fix immediately!!

For you to make this statement is outrageous. This is NOT a major problem for OS X. This is YOUR fault and your fault alone. How dare you blame anyone but yourself for your poor choices.

I got this virus on Smosh.com trying to watch a YouTube video. The site is fairly popular as well, which is why I thought the plug-in was safe

Thank you People, Mac, please don't let these ******** (Viruses makers) get on us. Thanks for fixing my life.

The best! Totally helpful! Thxs Thxs Thxs! Keep it up!

Like many others on this thread, I am experiencing the MPlayerX issue.

Unlike many others on this thread, I have tried going to the page that miliaz posted and I took the manual steps. When that didn't work, I downloaded the .zip file that was posted on the site. I followed the directions to a T, but MPlayer is still randomly opening and trying to download itself.

Can anyone please help me?

Thank you!

Hi cb7032

Please post a new question: Writing an effective Apple Support Communities question

Brilliant - so easy - worked beautifully for me. Thank you.

MPlayerX is a legitimate program (I do use it) http://mplayerx.org

However I did have MPlayerX.zip (9.0MB) download due to clicking on a wrong link, this one is malware.

Checking MPlayerX.zip with http://virusscan.jotti.org detects Adware.MAC.OSX.ExtensionsInstaller.F

You can use the Free BetterZip Quick Look Generator to view files in an app without unzipping.