VSCodec PRO is a fake video codec that promises to “increase the quality of audio and video up to 60%” (www.VSCodec-Pro.com), for $49.99-79.99.

Why not just invest in a better computer?

You’ll want to, after VS Codec PRO gets in your machine. If you have VSCodec PRO, your sound settings get effed with, and you’ll get a system tray alert that may read, “Fatal error. Media system on your computer is corrupt. Update your sound and video codec immediately to resolve this issue,” or “Fatal Erro. Windows can`t play the folowing (sic) media formats: AVI; WMV; AVS; FLV; MKV; MOV; 3GP; MP4; MPG; MPEG; MP3; AAC; WAV; WMA; CDA; FLAC; M4A; MID. Update your video and sound codec to resolve this issue” If you follow this VSCodec PRO popup’s prompts, you’re taken to VSCodec-Pro.com/purchase.html to waste money on the scamware. Outside of that fun, VSCodec PRO may also hijack your browser and launch loads of other VSCodec PRO popups.

Before this badware makes you take a baseball bat to your PC, I’ll show you how to uninstall VSCodec PRO.

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