WINDOWS USERS: Uninstall Apples QuickTime now!
If you have a Windows computer running Apple's QuickTime video player, you might want to think about uninstalling it. 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.
The bugs in the software could be exploited by a cybercriminal to attack computers when users visit a malicious website or open an unsafe. The warning only applies to the Windows version of QuickTime, so Mac users don't need to worry about it. Apple never supported the program for Windows 8 or 10 -- the two most recent flavors of Microsoft's operating system -- and its last security update was in January.
So, if QuickTime is still running somewhere on your PC, here is information explaining how to remove it sooner, rather than later: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205771
If you have a Windows computer running Apple's QuickTime video player, you might want to think about uninstalling it. 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.
The bugs in the software could be exploited by a cybercriminal to attack computers when users visit a malicious website or open an unsafe. The warning only applies to the Windows version of QuickTime, so Mac users don't need to worry about it. Apple never supported the program for Windows 8 or 10 -- the two most recent flavors of Microsoft's operating system -- and its last security update was in January.
So, if QuickTime is still running somewhere on your PC, here is information explaining how to remove it sooner, rather than later: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205771
