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bit:
At this location: download Veoh Player.
I'm in the US, and if I visit without a proxie, it says 'Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.softologic.com', and 'softologic download gkcmr'.
If I use a proxie to go to the download page, then it offers the download.
Upon downloading, if I scan it with malwarebytes, it says there is a PUP, or 'Potentially Unwanted Program' (i.e. actually, it qualifies as a 'virus' in my book), so I told it to delete the PUP and the Veoh Player download disappeared.

If I go to CNET and download it from there, scans come back 'clean', but when I prepare to install, it tells me that using normal install I 'agree' to allow the installation of some offbeat search engine, change my home page in IE, Firefox, and Chrome, and prevent changing back of my home page.
I didn't have to scan further, I just deleted it.

So what's the deal? Why am I being blocked from accessing the Veoh Player from America?
Is there a 'clean' version of the Veoh Player download that isn't infested with a PUP?

40hz:
Suggest reading the Wikipedia entry for Veoh. There's a whole section on countries it's blocked on. Veoh had more than its share of legal issues (being somewhat ahead of its time when it came out) because the content providers weren't ready for it. 

bit:
Thank you, I sort of see what they mean.
Veoh is bad news. From wikipedia;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veoh

"Included with recent installations of Veoh is a program called OpenCandy, which some security programs, including Microsoft Security Essentials, classify as adware. It also installs Delta Search, setting all the user's browsers to use an ad and tracking-loaded search engine without prompting for user confirmation."

"Veoh restricts users from playing full-length videos on Veoh.com, unless the Veoh Web Player is installed within their browser. The player also enables users to download video from Veoh.com and other websites."

A.K.A. 'adware', or PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program).

Veoh's Web Player and its unannounced hijacking of your home web page through stealth installation of a PUP, is very 'impolite', as a friend puts it.
Veoh's squeaky clean mainstream image puts you off your guard, then hits you below the belt.
I've retitled this thread to something that seems a little more appropriate: 'Veoh Web Player installs stealth virus'.

And here is one good place to go to deal with the 'virus infection' (it's not a PUP in my book), after uninstalling Veoh's crapware; http://malwaretips.com/blogs/trovi-com-removal/

tomos:
"Included with recent installations of Veoh is a program called OpenCandy, which some security programs, including Microsoft Security Essentials, classify as adware. It also installs Delta Search, setting all the user's browsers to use an ad and tracking-loaded search engine without prompting for user confirmation."
-bit (February 08, 2014, 11:53 PM)
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to be fair, OpenCandy facilitates the installation of additional toolbars/software, but is not in and of itself adware. Lots of very 'respectable' apps use it these days. If the settings are install by default - without asking the user, I dont think that's acceptable, but otherwise it's the price we pay for the freeware craze. See e.g. this post here https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=18297.msg164027#msg164027. Ren has also posted very positively about it from the developer POV.

As to what Veoh installs and it's settings during install, I have no idea and no comment beyond repeating: If the settings are install [additional software/toolbars] by default - without asking the user, I dont think that's acceptable.

tomos:
I'm not sure whether it qualifies for the title "stealth virus".**
Then I read that Delta Search is "an ad and tracking-loaded search engine" and thought, yeah, "stealth virus" is maybe okay.

.. but then I thought - that's actually a good description of google - ironic innit? :D


** see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_virus#Stealth_strategies
no I dont think it qualifies for that description.

Edit/ and, no, I'm not defending it. But do think that (especially in a software community) it's important to be accurate.

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