Careful of that Quicktime
March 4, 2004 7:55 PM
Another day another security problem. This time the victim is anybody with Apple's QuickTime player. The security hole lets hackers run malicious code on your machine when you visit a web site that references a devilishly hand-crafted file that QuickTime attempts to play but the file instead exploits either buffer problems or other issues with the player.
It's been two weeks since this problem has been discovered by security group eEye, but Apple has yet to release a fix or even announce the details of the problem. That means those of us with QuickTime installed have no idea what to do to protect ourseleves other than uninstall QuickTime.
Possibly to help keep that "Apple is secure" image going, Apple has no mention of this on the QuickTime site or the very unApple Apple Product Security web page that seems to be void of any helpful information.
A similar security hole was found in QuickTime last April which effected QuckTime versions 5.x and 6.0.
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Posted December 20, 2004 12:20 PM
I just downloaded Apple Quicktime but I now want to uninstall it but don't know how.
I can't play music on Windows Media Player anymore without it buffering all the time and this has only started happening after I installed Quicktime.Please help. Are there any ways to uninstall it??