How to Fix Video ActiveX Error

What causes the Video ActiveX Error?

When you try to play an online video, the following Video ActiveX Object error message may display: 

“Please download new version of the media codec software.” 

“Click ‘OK’to download and install media codec” 

Another Video ActiveX error that you may receive is” 

“Video ActiveX Object Error:  Your browser cannot display this video file.  

You need to download new version of Video ActiveX Object to play this video file.” 

What Happens After Video ActiveX Error Object Installs on the PC?

This Video ActiveX Object is nothing but a Trojan that disguises itself as a video codec and forces you to download it in order to watch an online video. When you try to play the video, you are not allowed to do so without the fake codec and the error messages listed above display.

When you download this codec a Trojan is installed along with it. The Trojan starts displaying errors that your PC is infected with virus and spyware programs. These alerts are displayed to scare the user into buying a rogue anti-spyware software.

The risk level of the Video ActiveX error is high. After the ActiveX Video object downloads, it installs Security Toolbar 7.1 to Internet Explorer and changes your home page to asecurityassurance.com.

Warning: Please do not open asecurityassurance.com because it is a malicious Web site and may download infected software to your PC. 

Some other related rogue sites that the Trojan is known to take your browser to are:

 

http://videosoftonline.com
http://ismymovies.com
http://www.tvsetmp3.com

Warning: You must NOT open these Web sites as well 

In addition to above symptoms, you may also notice flashing icons in the system tray of your computer.  

How to Fix the Video ActiveX Error?

You can use either manual or automatic processes to get rid of this malware. Both of these methods are discussed here.

Method 1: Manually Fix the Video ActiveX Error

Perform the following steps to manually remove the malware: 

Step 1: Kill the running malware processes 

Press Ctrl + Alt + Del or Ctrl + Shift + Esc key combination to display the Windows Task Manager. Here, on the Processes tab browse through the list of processes currently running on your computer and then kill the following processes.  

Step 2: Delete related ActiveX and DLL files.

Open the Search window, perform a search for following files and delete them:  

Step 3: Delete registry entries related to malware. 

Warning:  The following method requires you to make direct changes to the registry. It is essential for you to realize that any incorrect change may cause irreversible damage to the registry, which can be quite harmful for your PC. This is the reason why, it is recommended that you back up your registry before making any changes to it. To backup, you may either use the Registry Editor tool or a third-party registry repair tool.  

1.       Open Start menu, select Run, type regedit and then press Enter.  

2.       In the Registry Editor window that opens, select File and then Export. 

3.       Now save the backup of your Registry at an appropriate location—you may restore this backup by double-clicking on the backup file.  

4.       Next, navigate through the registry tree, search for and delete the following malware entries from it.

 

{C03FD59D-9104-44B7-929A-9EAA0BA05211}
{C2A1C5CB-C0EF-4689-9436-F62CCA1C5383}
{E85F6AA5-7A0C-49A5-9E5E-936FED62347D}
{F7D09218-46D7-4D3D-9B7F-315204CD0836}
{499B8A53-5949-4625-A8BF-A4D934AFC9DA}
{E63648F7-3933-440E-B4F6-A8584DD7B7EB} 

5.      Exit Registry Editor and restart your PC.

Method 2: Fix the Video ActiveX Error Automatically

You can easily get rid of the Video ActiveX Trojan by scanning and fixing your computer using effective, updated versions of antivirus and antispyware tools.

Whichever method you use, it is still recommended that you make use of a good registry repair tool to thoroughly scan the registry for any left-behind malware entries and to remove them. One very popular such tool is RegDefense.