Why do I get a My Disney window when installing VMWare Workstation?
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Published on 2010-05-07T12:38:06Z
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I'm assuming this is a virus, though my virus checker can't find it.
I downloaded the latest vmware workstation 7 installer. I'm running Windows 7 64bit.
I go to install it, and the installer window is a Disney website.
Upon further investigation, what's happening is that the vmware installer extracts/writes a bunch of files to a temp directory. One of those files is an index.htm file. When I open it, sure enough it's the Disney file.
I used sysinternals Process Monitor to look for anything fishy, but the only thing I see touching that index.htm file is the vmware installer and explorer.exe
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