Movies with set up files.

[shanopolos]

Didn't exactly know where to posts this but am fed up with downloading a film only for it not to play when I try to open it.
They usually have an nfo attached which says....
If you get the error: Can't play the file.

Install the codecs from the /Codec/ Directory.

Enjoy the movie!!

Except the only other file is a setup.exe so I am instantly suspicious.

If it was just the one film it would not be so bad but just lately every damned film I have tried has it......as a thought though...its always the newer releases.

Rant over.

[Smasher9a]

I've only seen that twice out of hundreds of movies. I'd drop that setup.exe into https://www.metascan-online.com/en or https://www.virustotal.com/ just to see what it comes up with but guarantee it would be something dodgy :)

[anon]

Movies with set up files.

= fake, delete them instantly.

[shanopolos]

I've only seen that twice out of hundreds of movies. I'd drop that setup.exe into https://www.metascan-online.com/en or https://www.virustotal.com/ just to see what it comes up with but guarantee it would be something dodgy :)

Thanks.....25 out of 41 found a threat...mainly adware results.
Checked a few of the others I have too and all came back similar.

[Smasher9a]

Pretty much as i expected they would. What anon said, fake, delete them and find a another site to download from :)

[megabyteme]

You guys are waaaay too suspicious. The latest Hollywood blockbusters that have only been in theaters for a couple of days and are already available as 1080p Blurays have to be distributed on unique codecs. I say turn off your antivirus (some codecs don't work with commercial products running in the background), and enjoy the free movies.

[IdolEyes787]

Apparently someone in Hollywood cares for my welfare seeing how I have no desire to see any of that shit currently being put out.

[anon]

You guys are waaaay too suspicious. The latest Hollywood blockbusters that have only been in theaters for a couple of days and are already available as 1080p Blurays have to be distributed on unique codecs. I say turn off your antivirus (some codecs don't work with commercial products running in the background), and enjoy the free movies.

Those codecs are so efficient they sometimes can compress an entire movie into 200 KB, evidently some big budget went into R&D there.

[megabyteme]

Those codecs are so efficient they sometimes can compress an entire movie into 200 KB, evidently some big budget went into R&D there.

That's so you can show off your mad computer skillz at work on your iPhone.

[lance55433]

fyi if you see a .exe file delete or format your hard drive and reinstall windows.

[shanopolos]

Just downloaded two versions of Kingsman....full length files.............both had the same message and exe files.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :angry:

[philquad]

fyi if you see a .exe file delete or format your hard drive and reinstall windows.
why on earth format the drive? what garbage
no, movie files dont have a exe
the easiest way to check a movie is after youve d-loaded 1 or 2 rar files, unrar or unzip it but tick the box "keep broken files"
yes it will error but if its real you can open the movie file briefly with vlc media player.
and you can see if its a exe or not

[madjock]

In some ways the take down of files has made things easier.

The majority of posts of things to good to be true usually are, and the majority of uploaders hide thier files as well, there are some more things you can do. So these posts that sound to good to be true...are.

1. Look at pre sites and see if they exist.
2. If you are downloading straight from a search engine, click on the name of the poster and see if he/she/it has uploaded anything else, you usually find its one post, or lots of other films to good to be true.
3,. Look for clues in the filename, for some reason these fake postings never same to label things correctly
4. Use Linux then the exes mean nothing :)

[shanopolos]

These have all been downloaded from Newsgroups so I always check file sizes before starting downloads.
Both of these files were around the 900mb total including the Par files and the extracted AVI was 750mb. The Codec folder that was unzipped had the exe file in it.
I have not run it...not that stupid but just getting miffed at the number of files in Newsgroups that I am downloading with this in it.

This is what I get as readout.....

Subject: Kingsman.The.Secret.Service.2014.AC3.BDRiP.XviD-hek.part01.rar [03/69] - "Kingsman.The.Secret.Service.2014.AC3.BDRiP.XviD-hek.part01.rar" yEnc (1/41)
Sender: [email protected] (XviDo)
Date: 1-Aug-2014 04:18

This is a RAR file set.
There are 75 sections and 2,575 individual messages in the file set.
The entire set of files is about 1.07 GB.

[madjock]

See straight away to me it is obvious as it says BDRip....99.999% of the time a Proper release group would release a BDrip first.. and who is hek ? So usually you would see a Cam then Webrip with HC subs, then Webrip then BDrip as this is the pattern releases are coming out nowadays, unless its Screener time.

Just because it has Par files and says its Xvid only means these sad #@$% have bandwidth to waste, the film does not exist, so it does not matter how many surveys and the likes you take its just an empty video file, and like I said the majority of releases are hidden files now, so a plain release name is usually a hoax for films nowadays.

And....thats download is 185 days old, and the movie is did not come out in the Cinemas till Dec 14 ?

Heres another tip for you, select the full name and search it in Google, if all you see is hits for it on Nzb search engines, its again very very likely its a fake, as usually these films come out in torrents or Http sites before they end up on the groups.

[Snee]

Sometimes, the files will be films or episodes of something, that are offset, somehow, so that it just displays as a mess, or won't play at all.

There are tools you can use to fix them, but it's kind of pointless, because they will hardly ever be what they are said to be.

What is pretty much universally true, is that they don't need a special codec, and that whatever the exe installs, it isn't a codec.

[madjock]

Especially in this case, if you do click on the Poster in Binsearch, he had a listing of films way before their cinema date, all in amazing BDrip and DVDRips.

I think what some of them have done is find out that Binsearch and the likes show passworded files in the description, so instead of the classic enter this site to get password, try this fake. and indeed the filenames show up from inside these releases, so makes them look real.

Maybe a case of Studio contracts doing this to put people off downloading, same idea as fake files on Torrents.

[hashman]

run from all exe files when you are getting movies.

[piercerseth]

run from all exe files when you are getting movies.

Fixed.