Call to Action: Quicktime Security Issue on Windows
Are you a Microsoft Windows PC user? Do you use Apple's QuickTime video player?
You should consider uninstalling the software. That is the advice of the Department of Homeland Security's United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, after two new bugs were discovered in the software. Click on the following link for more details: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA16-105A.
The bugs are rated as critical. They could be used to launch attacks on computers if users open a tainted file or visits a malicious Web site.
According to BBC, Quicktime support on the Windows platform has been ended by Apple.
Unpatched bugs put users at an increased vulnerability to viruses and malware.
"The only mitigation available is to uninstall QuickTime for Windows," the alert said, which noted that Mac computers are unaffected by the bugs.
The process to uninstall Quicktime on Windows has been provided by Apple via the following link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205771
If you have any questions please reach out. Thanks.
If you have any questions please reach out. Thanks.
