*WARNING* Possible Winamp Virii *WARNING*

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Posted by ExOn on Dec-29-2002 13:18:

*WARNING* Possible Winamp Virii *WARNING*

I just got a warning message from my firewallprog that an exe file in winamp tries to overwrite the orig exe file?
The file is called "winamp.exe.manifest" and is in the winamp catalog.
Check to see if you have it?

Cheers!

Posted by nekholm on Dec-29-2002 13:26:

nope

Posted by ExOn on Dec-29-2002 13:34:

Hmm i wonder how i got it? I haven't dloaded a prog to winamp since "Audiotracker"??

Posted by ali92 on Dec-29-2002 15:47:

Re: *WARNING* Possible Winamp Virii *WARNING*

quote:
Originally posted by Dj_ExOn
I just got a warning message from my firewallprog that an exe file in winamp tries to overwrite the orig exe file?
The file is called "winamp.exe.manifest" and is in the winamp catalog.
Check to see if you have it?

Cheers!

I get the winamp.exe.MANIFEST file immediately after uninstalling (or was it installing a new version??? I forget.) Winamp. Maybe you uninstalled, then installed, then uninstalled AGAIN? In this case, the original winamp.exe.MANIFEST WOULD be overwitten. Still, I always wondered what that MANIFEST file does anyway and why Winamp, in particular, creates it. No other program that I have creates a file like that. Why Winamp? What does the word "manifest" mean? Maybe that's a clue?