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If this is caused by Comodo, then I am sorry to criticise VLC. I just thought you should know about this problem. Comodo is one of the most common firewall in win' systems. I know that you have spent a lot of time to make a free and very useful media player for everyone. These two programs should wo...

I have also installed VLC (and Comodo) in a virtual version of Win7. Made by Virtualbox. Here it is worse! The installer has registered all the 273 dll's in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\plugins as Trusted File s in Comodo! Plus the program itself, the uninstaller, cache-gen and three other dl...

This is the file I installed (checksums):
File: vlc-1.1.5-win32.exe
CRC-32: 7301dcbe
MD4: 72a746a117835e86724553e0f528daab
MD5: 988bc05f43e0790c6c0fd67118821d42
SHA-1: 11a14856e07b28d5c637c38f5191915f787fb85e

Because of former problems with spyware I am very focused on security. Due to that I focuses on the details in my firewall, Comodo. A few days ago I wanted to make another control of which files are registered as Trusted files in Comodo's section Defense + . A database of "safe executable s&quo...