So, I was reinstalling Windows 10 on a computer, and this computer has ESET Smart Security 8 on it. When I went to download VLC player (from www.videolan.org) I got an popup from ESET complaining that some of the mirrors that VLC uses are on their "filtered website" list (basically means that they are flagged for malware/adware, etc). I can't remember the specific sites, but does anyone know about this.
In the end, I did try to download VLC from the site but apparently the mirror it chose gave me an infected file, which ESET removed upon download. Has anyone else run into this. The virus it referenced was OpenCandy.C, which I haven't looked too much into (as I ended up just giving the person an slightly older version I had saved to a disk, which was NOT infected). Basically, my concern here is that some of their mirror sites may be giving out malware-infested copies of VLC player.
But this makes me wonder since VLC is a popular program and has over a billion downloads according to some articles online.
In the end, I did try to download VLC from the site but apparently the mirror it chose gave me an infected file, which ESET removed upon download. Has anyone else run into this. The virus it referenced was OpenCandy.C, which I haven't looked too much into (as I ended up just giving the person an slightly older version I had saved to a disk, which was NOT infected). Basically, my concern here is that some of their mirror sites may be giving out malware-infested copies of VLC player.
But this makes me wonder since VLC is a popular program and has over a billion downloads according to some articles online.