Did anyone get an alert? As I was wondering why the MS Media wasn't reporting this and keeping it up in the 3 day news cycle. What say ye. A cyber security team at the US Department of Homeland Security is advising people to remove QuickTime media software from Windows computers to avoid being hacked. The US Computer Security Readiness Team (CERT) on Thursday issued an alert after Trend Micro put out word that Apple will no longer be updating defenses in QuickTime and that two vulnerabilities in the program could be exploited by hackers. "Exploitation of QuickTime for Windows vulnerabilities could allow remote attackers to take control of affected systems," CERT said in the alert. "The only mitigation available is to uninstall QuickTime for Windows." The advisory did not apply to QuickTime running on Apple computers.....snip~ https://www.yahoo.com/tech/us-advises-deleting-quicktime-windows-computers-201217977.html?nhp=1
I use either Zoom Player or Windows Media Player. But my girlfriend has kept QuickTime to use manually, offline. She prefers its simplicity in removing single frames from a video. I guess that this is safe in an isolated environment as opposed to online streaming.
