Not to be an alarmist, I thought I'd pass this on to the folks here because it potentially could cause problems for anyone who has or is using this program.
I downloaded the program "ViewEXIF1.9.exe" probably about a month or so ago. It's a program that allows Windows Explorer to display thumbnail photos of raw files, so that there is no need to be in Photoshop to see the content of photos when viewing a menu tree on your hard drive. I loved being able to browse and find particular photos from Windows Explorer, although I still had to use Photoshop to open them.
I've been out of town for a couple weeks and have not scanned my computer lately... until this morning. Upon completion of the normal scan that I usually run weekly, my virus detection program reported that this .exe file was infected with malware. It further stated that it could not be cleaned, and therefore it should be quarantined or deleted. I immediately deleted the file with no problem, as far as I can tell.
So there are two purposes for this post:
1. To give a friendly warning for others who may be using this program. If you have it you should probably do a virus scan to check your computer system.
2. To ask for advice on what programs that others are using for this same purpose, that I might be able to download to restore the functionality of browsing my photos without having to go into Photoshop.
Before this download, I routinely used Zoombrowser for this purpose, and I will go back to that unless I find a suitable replacement for the program I deleted.
Any suggestions?
Tim
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
I agree with using FoxFire and the exif viewer if you are inside a webpage that you want to see the details on an image.
As a independant viewer on your desktop I use a couple of other ones. There is Fast Stone which is pretty basic and free. I also use Breezebrowser Pro. It is not free but has alot of other functionality that I have used and certainly was decent investment for me.
__________________ Sheldon Simpson
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Uh...doesn't anyone use the Windows RAW Viewer? It provides thumbnails as well as opening the files for viewing. The first version wasn't very bug-free, but the current version is great. EXIF is provided by a pop-up box when mousing over the file. I recommend it. If you primarily want to view EXIF, it isn't the best for that.
__________________ Dennis
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Thanks for the suggestions. I mainly wanted a program that would enable me to search for a particular photo without opening photoshop, but also seeing the exif data is surely a plus.
But just to update what I posted this morning... I found out that I can still view thumbnails in Windows Explorer after all, even though I deleted the bad file. This is because the file that was bad was the downloaded .exe file, which I had installed, and then failed to go back and delete the .exe file from my download directory. The weird thing is that immediately after deleting the .exe file, I opened a directory of photos in Windows Explorer, and all I saw was the raw file icons.... so I assumed that the functionality of the program was gone. It was then that I made the post on this forum
But later when I did the same thing again, the thumbnails displayed like they used to. So I'm not exactly sure what to think, but the bottom line is that anyone who has downloaded that particular program may want to scan their system to make sure their download was not infected like mine apparently was.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Had a similar problem with Opanda IExif Viewer. It was flagged by BitDefender as a generic Trojan virus when it attempted to modify registry entries, which weren't necessary for it to operate. Here's a thread on it on the Nikonians forum:
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