Well thanks for the heads up, I was going to uninstall it but then I noticed that I never installed it in the first place lol.
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let me know if you find anything of value i can resell ;_;
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Uninstalled it. Hope I don't need it for any games or programs I have installed. :\
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It's only windows users that are in danger -___-. I used to have it, but not sure if I do anymore
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no until adobe updates codecs in adobe suite to not rely on quicktime. Other software like sony vegas rely to it too.
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yep if you do video editing, it's one of the codecs you should have as an essential part of a complete kit. not necessarily ever using the player gui at all. but because of the way apple likes to do stuff you can't get some of the codecs without having the stupid player installed.
(and just like with Adobe Flash, you can still have it on your system, while not having the plugin activated in the browser, that is the better alternative than everyone randomly removing it and find out a program or game fails later on)
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yep, that's the alternative. The exploit needs the user to visit a malicious site where it needs the quicktime plugin enabled for it to be injected.
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Maybe to you, but some people actually like not being seriously limited in our gaming options.
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You can get most Windows games to work on Linux with Wine, it just takes some time and effort. I rarely do it since there's enough Linux games, but for some titles like Mass Effect it's worth it yeah.
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Yeah, if WINE worked perfectly or almost always had a workaround to get a game I wanted to work, I would probably consider it.
Unfortunately, I've been told on multiple occasions there are often issues with it, such as odd slowdowns.
I would LOVE to switch to Linux, but until it gets some serious popularity and game support, I just can't. Too many games I wouldn't be able to play properly
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I tried doing it with VM Workstation once, but the hardware acceleration isn't supported fully yet.. maybe some day... then I would definitely be on linux and using a virtual windows for the games that need it.
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but it's an Apple product though, of course they don't care to continue making it secure for a competing OS ;)
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well, I can't deny that.
I'll do linux some day, possibly when win7 or 8 is no longer supported. I sure as hell won't touch win10.
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Uhm, yes, this is why this chart was all over the net a year ago…
http://mspoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/msn/2015/02/Most-Vulnerable-OS.jpg
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maybe you want the newest 2015 data as well?
http://www.gfi.com/blog/2015s-mvps-the-most-vulnerable-players/
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Worth noting is that all Apple OSes are counted together, while Microsoft is split.
If they were lumped together, it'd be 982 vulnerabilities to Apple's 384 and Linux's 378
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Are you trying to suggest they skewed the results to make Microsoft look good? Unthinkable.
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Apple currently has 2 supported OSes, MacOS X and iOS and they're counted separately.
I'm fairly certain these stats do not include MacOS 9, MacOS 8, etc.
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MacOS X has quite a few different versions, and has been around since 2001, which is before the oldest Microsoft products listed. Leopard, Tiger, etc. could each have been a different version, but unlike Microsoft, they don't claim every release is a different product.
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Still, the reports aren't lumping together every version of MacOS X. They likely using the latest update.
And adding vulnerablities from various versions of Windows wouldn't make sense either since there's a good chance that the same vulnerabilities are present in more than one version so that number would represent nothing.
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Yeah. The author also flat out states
we’re not going to worry about what level of risk the vendor places on a vulnerability
If you filter by CVE severity scores, Windows 8.1 had 43/151 (28.48%) rated severity 9+ while Ubuntu 17/166 (10.24%).
It's also necessary to separate the operating systems products/distributions because it isn't inherently the operating itself that it is vulnerable, but could be a program or library that comes default with the distribution. 13 of the 17 aforementioned Ubuntu vulnerabilities are actually flaws in the bundled Firefox ESR browser. If you lumped every distribution together then you could have duplicates of these vulnerabilities as multiple distributions ship with Firefox. Same deal with Windows and Internet Explorer (only difference being that can't be 100% removed).
But the CVE listings have only so much meaning. FreeBSD or Gentoo look amazing in comparison, but if you install ports of the same vulnerable packages then you open yourself up to many of the same attack vectors. Everything is so modular that you can't even generalize Linux from kernel vulnerabilities because some of them affect certain features/modules like specific filesystem support or KVM/XEN virtualization.
If you did lump everything running a Linux kernel together though, the number of vulnerabilities would be absolutely astronomical. So many Linux-embedded devices (IP webcams, routers, smart televisions, 'internet of things' devices, etc.) are shipped poorly configured with things like hardcoded credentials, backdoors, interfaces that don't or poorly sanitize user input, or do silly things like read and execute some user's config file as root or execute any file as root that's named like an update file.
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not sure how to interpret that graph:
eg Dell near 0 vunerabilities but almost 100% ...something?
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QuickTime still exists? Why? It has never been good, never offered anything good, and we have far superior codecs for years. I can't even remember when was the last time I had to install it because some old game still used it for its cinematics.
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New challenge: find one of mind OLD computers that maybe still has it installed.
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Quicktime was bundled with iTunes as recently as a couple of years ago (maybe still is?). Chances are that most people who have it installed on Windows nowadays are owners of iOS devices.
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Oh yeah, that is right. That always annoyed me, and how slow iTunes was. Pretty sure whatever last PC I used them on I killed it.
But, going way back, Quicktime seemed like a standard installed thing.
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Yep! A lot of old PC games used it, including one of the first I ever played (The Journeyman Project - 1993). I'm honestly surprised that Bink Video (formerly Smacker) is still prominently used by the games industry for videos.
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I have QuickTime Movie (.MOV) files but that's it.
Is that fine? I don't have the actual quicktime thing, couldn't find it.
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Yeah it has nothing to do with multimedia files using quicktime extensions, just the Quicktime app itself is at issue.
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Just like some users above wow, just wow.
Ssomebody was still using QuickTime at all ? Dang o.O
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im going to go out on a ledge here and say they have likely known about this exploit and have used it for some time and are just now telling us about it to make a stab at apple after they fought them on unlocking that iphone.
i mean when was the last time the government actually told us to uninstall a program from our pc's to protect our privacy?
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The only QT I have is codecs repackaged outside of the application distribution. I'm surprised Apple is still clinging to the deformed corpse of that bloated, clunky, terrible program.
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What? Really, Quicktime is vulnerable? Can they hack my Myspace? Do they track my Altavista searches? Is it safer if I update my Netscape Navigator? OMG now I'm worried!! :V
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Don't panic! Just install McAfee and you'll be fine.
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i wonder who in their right mind still uses QuickTime
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I don't think I even have QuickTime on my computer. I've never heard of it until now. Just checked my Control Panel/Install and Uninstall section, don't see it anywhere.
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I actually use it pretty often so fuck it, I'm gonna keep it.
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Quicktime still exists? Now that's something I'm impressed of
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lol. Haven't had quicktime installed since 1995....
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Just uninstalled, thanks. I have no idea why it was still on my computer.
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Hmmm, good to know. I'm usually pretty good about avoiding threats, but it never hurts to be extra cautious.
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Never needed it for anything so never installed it on this computer. I think I may have used it years ago though.
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Any idea if QTLite is affected by this at all? I regularly use software (Mocha Pro V4) that requires QuickTime to load files, so removing all QuickTime functionality isn't an option for me. QAAC also requires some QuickTime functionality as well.
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http://time.com/4295733/pc-quicktime-danger/
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