The 46th most popular installer on Windows
DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIVX) is a digital media company that enables consumers to enjoy a high-quality video experience across any kind of device. DivX creates, distributes and licenses digital video technologies that span the "three screens" comprising today's consumer media environment — the PC, the television and mobile devices. Over 100 million DivX Certified® devices have shipped into the market from leading consumer electronics manufacturers. DivX also offers content providers and publishers a complete solution for the distribution of secure, high-quality digital video content. Driven by a globally recognized brand and a passionate community of hundreds of millions of consumers, DivX is simplifying the video experience to enable the digital home.… More Edit
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Did you create this app?| Website: | divx.com/divx/windows/... |
| Developer: | DivX Inc. |
| License: | Free |
| Version: | 1.0.0.304 |
| Rating: | Features: Interface: Performance: Price/value: Overall: |
| Usage: | 2 days, 4 hours, 58 minutes and 11 seconds |
| Usage since: | 03 May 2007 |
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It installs divx.
A scan of my computer yesterday, 9.11.2008, by Panda Antivirus + Firewall 2008 found that a DivXInstaller_exe.vir file dated 6.10.2008 was infected with a generic trojan. And in looking up “DivX” in Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX I found this...
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Spyware in prior versions
At one point, DivXNetworks offered for download an "ad supported" version of their DivX Professional product free of charge to users who were willing to view advertisements. The ads were delivered by the GAIN ad server software. While this attracted much criticism at the time, users had to manually select the "ad supported" download rather than the for-pay professional version or the free version. Additionally, users were informed during installation of the ad-supported version that the Gator software would be installed on their PC and were presented with a license agreement to which they had to consent in order to continue the installation. Regardless, the Gator software would still install parts of itself without the user agreeing to this installation, and was difficult to remove after installation. This raised considerable consternation amongst DivX users, causing many to turn to its free software rival, Xvid. The latter is freely available without installing adware and has been demonstrated in independent comparisons to produce better quality output (see section on competitors above).
Due to the generally hostile opinion towards spyware on the Internet, DivXNetworks announced on the DivX web site that, from July 15, 2004, no further DivX software would incorporate any adware.[17] Free versions of DivX Pro before 5.2 typically contained spyware. From 5.2 onwards, including version 6, no spyware was included. When accessed in April 2007, the Professional version of DivX was only available in the form of a paid release or a 15-day free trial with no adware included. The DivX Player remains available in a long-term free license.
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I'll go with Xvid.