Here at StopBadware.org we’re constantly finding examples of common badware attacks. One well used avenue for attack is the bundling of badware into codecs. Through a bit of social engineering these programs will pose as some end-all be-all solution to your problems; from saving you marriage to entertaining you, they’ll do it all! The opposite is usually the case, of course, but we usually get a kick out of the kind of ridiculousness that they will presume to solve. Today while looking at a codec offered at hotelcodec.com, we discovered that they held no such pretensions; as their EULA clearly stated:
While we appreciate hotelcodec.com’s concise EULA, we don’t suggest that users install their codec on their machines.
