1. If video thumbnails don't work in Windows Explorer, Microsoft should fix that, or third parties should fix it by means other than malware installs.
2. Nobody should be using Windows Media Player. It's awful. Again, if it needs fixing, it should be fixed without malware.
3. If your existing media player lacks codecs, this can be fixed in several good ways. Malware is not the way to fix this.
I conclude that DivX is completely worthless, since it adds nothing that can't be better added in other ways, and is now aggressively evil as well.
1. If video thumbnails don't work in Windows Explorer, Microsoft should fix that, or third parties should fix it by means other than malware installs.
2. Nobody should be using Windows Media Player. It's awful. Again, if it needs fixing, it should be fixed without malware.
3. If your existing media player lacks codecs, this can be fixed in several good ways. Malware is not the way to fix this.
I conclude that DivX is completely worthless, since it adds nothing that can't be better added in other ways, and is now aggressively evil as well.