diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 72d410df..3b399c1e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1517,3 +1517,6 @@ Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
 
 Nicolas Huillard <nhuillard@e-dition.fr>
  for translating OSD texts to the French language
+
+Patrick Fischer <patrick_fischer@gmx.de>
+ for reporting an error in the cFilter example in PLUGINS.html
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 0b6f3eb8..54d5c117 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -3909,3 +3909,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   per device or CAMs with more than one smart card.
 - Updated the Greek OSD texts (thanks to Dimitrios Dimitrakos).
 - Updated the French OSD texts (thanks to Nicolas Huillard).
+- Fixed the cFilter example in PLUGINS.html (reported by Patrick Fischer).
diff --git a/PLUGINS.html b/PLUGINS.html
index c44e6523..12317cc3 100644
--- a/PLUGINS.html
+++ b/PLUGINS.html
@@ -1447,7 +1447,7 @@ An instance of such a filter needs to be attached to the device from
 which it shall receive data, as in
 
 <p><table><tr><td bgcolor=#F0F0F0><pre>
-cMyFilter Filter;
+cMyFilter *Filter = new cMyFilter();
 
 cDevice::ActualDevice()-&gt;AttachFilter(Filter);
 </pre></td></tr></table><p>