venusfly 17,885 Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Homeland Security are advising Windows users to uninstall Quicktime from their machines. Here's why. TrendMicro's Zero Day program noted two high-risk vulnerabilities in QuickTime for Windows, which can be triggered when the user accesses any tainted file or opens any malicious site. With Apple backing out of the game, instant removal of the Windows software might be a good idea to protect the system from the potential attacks. While no news of any such attacks against the system flaws has come to light yet, TrendMicro advises that the only solution to this problem would be to stick with Apple's recommendation. Echoing the security software maker's sentiments, US-CERT has also issued an alert warning the users of the same. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/150454/20160416/us-cert-wants-you-to-uninstall-apples-quicktime-heres-why.htm What this basically means is, Quicktime has multiple severe issues that can allow people to access your computer, Apple will not be issuing fixes for them, so you should remove Quicktime from your Windows PC. Mac is unaffected. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday 2,186 Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Its a media player ? I remember it got installed by itself when I primarily installed another program, so I deleted it shortly afterwards I'm not even kidding Are there supposed to be lawsuits coming for this tho ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AIex 3,102 Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 lol when i installed itunes it didn't come with... i think its the version? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo 8,666 Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Thanks for the reminder, I don't remember installing it but I had a version on my computer. Don't visit my profile Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
venusfly 17,885 Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 7 minutes ago, BURQA said: lol when i installed itunes it didn't come with... i think its the version? i think it comes with older versions of itunes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,926 Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Just removed it. Thanks for this thread! I would have probably never known. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judas Oyster 1,940 Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 With Apple backing out of the game <3 It sucks anyway. VLC FTW Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion Heart 15,041 Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Uninstalled ha ▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLuna 12,732 Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 That's funny, I uninstalled it from my computer like two weeks ago because I was tired of getting update notifications. Who the hell uses Quicktime anyway? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebeldeFaith 5,784 Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Is that still a thing on Windows? There are way better players out there. Can I vanish into a cheeseburger pizza? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
venusfly 17,885 Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 5 minutes ago, RebeldeFaith said: Is that still a thing on Windows? There are way better players out there. Nobody really uses it, just many people have it because it bundles with itunes which many people need if they have iphones Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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