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Sunday, 2 November 2008

MSoftCodec

Posted on 01:47 by Unknown
MSoftCodec is yet another fake codec belonging to Zlob trojan family. The dropper, MSoftCodec.exe, is hosted at 1st-download-software-base.net (206.51.225.218) (whois info). As of now, detections are poor as demonstrated by this VirusTotal scan.
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