For anyone on here with young children

[Al Wyn]

http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/home only takes 2 mins to set up, its free and the look on the face of my little 5 year old daughter was worth a million dollars...ok slight exageration but she was happy Merry Christmas ho ho ho

[s2driveruk]

Nice find Al

merry xmas to you and your and all the best for 2011 too

Cheers
David

[UrS4boy]

Sounds like Paul Giamatti (sp) behind the beard.

[hibby]

Also on Christmas eve you can track the big man using google earth. http://www.noradsanta.org/

[DamianURS4]

installing the codec required has identified a trojan embedded in the Clickpotato software - i am not going any further with this - beware chaps - this santa is 'dirty'.

[S-Express]

thats brilliant!

[s2driveruk]

my av hasn't fired off the codec? sure that wasnt resident on your pc before?

[Nuvo]

*Possibly* a false positive was detected.

[S-Express]

didn't ask me for a codec either and my av is up to date

[s2driveruk]

just run a deep sweep and nothing came up...looks to be clean for me

[Dan]

It's just flash (the same plugin that runs YouTube and half the rest of the internet).

I'm guessing your Flash player is out of date - not sure why it'd flag the AV, but regardless, update your flash player from the Adobe site:

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

(and if that flags an error, it's definitely a false positive)

[rizzono1]

My wife did the same for my kids, they had this last year also but the website has made better improvments with the interation this year.

[DamianURS4]

it could be because i am running 64 bit -

[irishs2]

Yep that setup has malware in it:

F-Prot 4.6.2.117 2010.12.22 W32/HotBar.L.gen!Eldorado
F-Secure 9.0.16160.0 2010.12.23 Gen:Variant.Adware.Hotbar.2
Fortinet 4.2.254.0 2010.12.21 Adware/PlatriumSA
GData 21 2010.12.23 Gen:Variant.Adware.Hotbar.2
Ikarus T3.1.1.90.0 2010.12.23 not-a-virus:WebToolbar.Win32

Full report

http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=d3761bc12ec761c13926ed4c0e0c2e4ceffc13d48434052a08e474a65d321ec4-1293099553

[DamianURS4]

better safe than sorry ;-)