Beaware VirtualDub Users...

[henriQ]

(Excerpt from an emailed news-report):

"Generaly accredited sources inform that sourceforge.net was recently raided by some evil intencioned hacking party/ies which targeted VirtualDub most recent update (1.5.2) and tampered with it.

Intense investigations were, in these last days, triggered as per the detection of origine of those actions but, up this date, while some suspects have been rounded up, no final direct accusation has been casted yet.

The fact remains that the once reliable, trustworthy and useful freeware video-editing application (up to 1.5.1) suddenly turned into an erratic, potentialy destrutive piece of software. And the damaging, irreparable, effects it can produce on carefuly captured and or otherwise encoded .avi files are pilling up, to the amazed despair of thousands of once users.

Beware of VirtualDub 1.5.2

(Excerpt from an emailed news-report, i received - end of quotation)

Now, i ask: is this for real or just a bad-taste prank?

Regards,

HN

[jggimi]

I can make no comment as to the veracity of your unnamed source, or using Doom9's forum as a replacement for due diligence -- but the thread has been moved to the Vdub forum, where it is more appropriate... (if unfounded rumors are appropriate anywhere).

Edit: Now that I look at my post, I guess I did comment after all.

[BaronVlad]

I dont know the facts, but I think the problem often is the unexperienced user itself. He destroys his avis...:D

[ChristianHJW]

Avery himself said on the Vdub support forum that 1.5.2 is broken for now ...