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Install the "codec", and this won't end well. The EXE comes from a site called Favoritetube(dot)com:



A quick check for the safety ratings of that website should be enough to tell you this is a scam. Indeed, there isn't even a movie being streamed here (despite it saying "Connecting" at the bottom of the movie player) - because if you right click on the player itself:

You can see the "player" is actually just a static image (because I'm given the option to "Copy Image Location"). The image is hosted at Favoritetube, just like the "codecs":


There are quite a lot of these sites floating around out there at present:

At this point, it's a given that I'm going to show you what happens if you install one of the files typically pushed from the above sites, right? Well, wait no longer - this....

...will deposit a rogue antispyware tool on your desktop (one of more more obnoxious ones that refuses to leave you alone):


Strange and annoying icons will start to creep across your desktop:

....and you'll have more fake system alerts than you can shake a very large stick at:



This concludes my public safety announcement. I'm off to see Dark Knight again...

Click the link, and you'll see something like this:

Yes, it's Ye Olde Fake Codec installer, hosted on what appears to be a hacked website. As always, pay close attention to what you're being sent from your friends. If it doesn't seem like something they'd send you, that's probably because they didn't...