It enables you to play media files in any popular video and audio formats, such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, MOV, AVI, FLV, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3, AAC, M4A, and more. It offers everything you need from a player tool. VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player which supports almost all video and audio formats. VLC Media Player was one of the applications that was allegedly used by the CIA. For example, adware programs will repackage VLC as a "needed" player, which will also install unwanted software, adware, extensions, and Trojans.Īttackers are also known to use VLC to distribute more advanced malware such as FinFisher, VLC was also used as part of the CIA Vault 7 cyber toolkit called "Fine Dining" that weaponized popular applications to spy on targets. VLC is popular among malware distributorsĪ common tactic used by malware distributors is to take popular open source software, such as VLC, and repackage them to also install malware. Update 11/30/18 8:45 PM EST: Bing has changed their detections for the site is no longer displaying the alert for. When this happens, and a URL is confirmed to be safe, we unblock the site.” – a Microsoft spokesperson “Out of an abundance of caution, security protocols may return false positives at times. This warning is not new, though, and was being shown at least 3 months ago according to a Reddit post.īleepingComputer has reached out to Microsoft regarding this warning and received the following statement: Therefore, it is surprising that Bing is detecting them in this manner. When testing the software on VirusTotal, though, only 1 out of 62 security vendors detected it as malicious. We've checked, and the binary has not changed and is still correctly signed.īleepingComputer tested searching for VLC in Bing and was shown the same warning when hovering over the search result. This appeared 2 days ago, and we have no clue how to fix it (yet). Supposedly, now consider vlc-3.0.4-win64.exe as a malware, which gives an annoying popup.
Bing's Site Safety page for also states that the site shows "indications of malicious activity". Bing's displaying of this warning came to a head yesterday when the Twitter account for VideoLan tweeted that Bing is displaying a popup stating the site is dangerous and contains malicious software.
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