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Urgent Call to Action: Uninstall QuickTime for Windows Today

Discussion in 'General Malware And Security' started by Vger, Apr 15, 2016.

  1. Vger

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    We’re putting the word out that everyone should follow Apple’s guidance and uninstall QuickTime for Windows as soon as possible.

    This is for two reasons.

    First, Apple is deprecating QuickTime for Microsoft Windows. They will no longer be issuing security updates for the product on the Windows Platform and recommend users uninstall it. Note that this does not apply to QuickTime on Mac




    http://blog.trendmicro.com/urgent-call-action-uninstall-quicktime-windows-today/
     
    Vger, Apr 15, 2016
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    Best thing that you could do with QuickTime, nuke it. Had to have it a while back because of my Iphones, everytime you wanted to use it there was a huge new version just waiting to put carp all over my machine. Only ever installed it on a spare PC for that reason.
     
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    And what to replace it?
     
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    For me I still have i tunes on a old pc that hardly ever gets used and only then used for apps for the phones. IOS updates are done on wifi. For music Media monkey and copy trans manager does it well.
     
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    I wouldn't install quicktime on an enemies computer. Complete rubbish crapware.
     
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    where did you guys see that apple wants quick time out ?
    i thing i saw that too somewhere yep
     
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    Well I'm not nuts about the program either. However, it is a necessary evil. I do video conversion and the formats used by the camera are of the apple variety. Without quicktime I can't do anything with the files. So it's just a dandy idea on Apple's part to just uninstall it, but that would leave me high and dry. Wonder how serious the vulnerabilities are.
     
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    @GimboV have you looked into other players. I do not know if VideoLAN (VLC) will play them or not worth a look. I have used it before for both audio and video.

    http://www.videolan.org/
     
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    I don't actually view the file with Quicktime. The software I have uses the codex provided by Quicktime to convert the file into a PC friendly version.
     
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    They actually showed this on the local news channel
    Ahh ok.
     
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    A better player than VLC that plays all Quicktime stuff is Pot Player, and it will play videos at better quality than VLC too.
     
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    Yup. I used to use VLC but never liked it since I felt it was clunky. Pot Player is much better, once I discovered it, I uninstalled VLC from all of my systems and have never missed it.
     
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    Glad you like it, people I've recommended to try PotPlayer have all been very happy with it, EXCEPT for the options, The player is way over the top with options for the options. None the less it remains a great media player. The video quality leaves VLC for dead. It is also now safe to update PotPlayer from within the program which was not always the case. If you updated 2 or 3 years ago you would have finished up with a Korean language player which could not be changed to English.
     
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