vivacodec, hosted at www.vivacodec.com (do NOT visit that website). Similar to the old ones, this new fake codec drops a rootkit. This rootkit uses Winlogon\System subkey to load itself during system startup. Here are the screenshots of rootkit's Registry entry, and hidden file as detected by RootkitRevealer:

Anti-Rootkit tools like F-Secure BlackLight or AVG Anti-Rootkit can be used to automatically remove the rootkit.
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