Homeland Security Issues Urgent Warnng About QuickTime Windows Vulnerability

[vienna]

I don't think very many people still use QuickTime anymore, but there are still on a lot of machines running Windows with QuickTime installed. Apple is not going to issue any more security fixes for QuickTime even though there are two known serious Windows vulnerabilities:

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/04/15/government-tells-windows-users-delete-quicktime-due-hacking-dangers/

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA16-105A

http://blog.trendmicro.com/urgent-call-action-uninstall-quicktime-windows-today/

Just a heads up for those who might be affected...



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[aanker]

I don't think very many people still use QuickTime anymore, but there are still on a lot of machines running Windows with QuickTime installed. Apple is not going to issue any more security fixes for QuickTime even though there are two known serious Windows vulnerabilities:

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/04/15/government-tells-windows-users-delete-quicktime-due-hacking-dangers/

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA16-105A

http://blog.trendmicro.com/urgent-call-action-uninstall-quicktime-windows-today/

Just a heads up for those who might be affected...

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Thanks, it figures. Don't you just love it - ha!

It may have been installed when I installed SH4 (I didn't want it).... soo, I downloaded "QuickTime 7.7.9" for "Windows 7 and Windows Vista" just to have if the SH4 DVD doesn't work. I don't even recall what SH4 uses it for.

Happy Hunting!

[vienna]

IIRC, didn't the various releases of SH use QuickTime to run their videos? Also, as you pointed out, QT is often installed as part of some software programs, games in particular, as a matter of course, and, often as a requirement to run the main software. There may be a lot of people out there who have QT on their machines and either not be aware of the installations or have forgotten about its existence...

If you need a workaround for QT, installing any of the various good media players will do; just change the preferred file association to the new player instead of QT...



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[Rockin Robbins]

One of the best is VLC Media Player. (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html) Free. Open source. Plays anything you can throw at it with no trouble to you. You can dump Quicktime and never miss it.

[aanker]

One of the best is VLC Media Player. (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html) Free. Open source. Plays anything you can throw at it with no trouble to you. You can dump Quicktime and never miss it.
Bingo, that's what I use, it keeps getting better & better