Mplayer2

[MsDG]

Has anybody ever had problems with mplayer2.exe

I have always used the old media player (mplayer2) on XP. However, it suddenly stopped working.

On investigation I found that the mplayer2 "process" was starting but no window was popping up. When you look at the process list there would be a mplayer2 running for each time I tried to start it! (but still no windows). I then found that after a reboot mplayer2 was autostarting in the process list. Any attempts to manually close it results in the thing starting up again 10 seconds later.

wierd

So I have always got a mplayer2 running???

I have searched the net high and low, and run different virus/spyware checks and found nothing?

any ideas?

[stevie2001]

Hi DirtyGirl (Call me old fashioned but I hate to call you that).

You may have a spyware thingy.

Have a look at this thread, look for AlvinC about 4/5 post down. He mentions MPlayer2.

http://www.able2know.com/forums/about21407.html

No Gaurantees.

I`ll see what else I can dig up.

Steve

EDIT::: Here`s a load of links related to mplayer2 & spyware.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mpl...en-US:official

Hope this helps.

[MsDG]

Cheers stevie. Just got my computer back up.

This is a really wierd one. There was something really suss about the whole thing yet no AV or spyware program could find a problem!

In the end I solved the problem easily....

Re-installed XP via unpartition and repartition + format (kills all known germs dead)

Karma for your help!

[stevie2001]

HI DG

Thats the easy way out.

Takes all the fun out of it.

I don`t know, laydees are always looking for an easy life.

Just glad you got sorted.

Thaks for the K.

Steve

[unclex]

install spybot for the future

[tam9]

install linux in future.

[unclex]

install linux in future.

agree

Run Free BSB myself

[tam9]

I've never used any of the *BSD releases. How are they for compatibility issues etc? Do you compile everything from source or do you just use binaries?

[MsDG]

install linux in future.

.... and never play a decent game again! Cheers, thats just the ticket when you spent £££ on a bitching Nvidia - Internet, word processing and the odd card based freeware card game!

[unclex]

you can do both - back on topic