It went through the search and download and now my movie player is "dedicated" to playing this same video clip of a girl with a laptop (never downloaded it) and I cannot use it to stream GCN anymore. Malware for Linux?? I thought this kind of hijacking is a windows exclusive...
I have to agree and wonder just what player has been "hijacked", xine? vlc? mplayer? Aviplayer? Noatune? Dragonplayer?
If one is having trouble, does another work?
Any ideas or do I just need to re-install Ubuntu?
The Linux distribution environment is far more modular than Windows. It's very, very rarely required to "reinstall" when what you're having trouble with is an application. First I'd say see if another player is also effected, before we go getting extreme.