Tag: QUICKTIME

A few weeks ago, we told you about an exploit in the Windows version of Apple's QuickTime, based on a line of code from 2001. QuickTime 7.6.8, released Wednesday, finally fixes that vulnerability. The bug allowed the takeover of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 machines with Internet Explorer installed. The news isn't so much that Apple fixed the problem, but that they took longer to do so than ...

A decade-old backdoor in Apple's QuickTime media player allows someone to completely take over or run malicious code on a Windows 7 machine, according to The Register. The weird backdoor is an unused parameter called " _Marshaled_pUnk," which has been around since 2001, and was originally used to draw contents in the current QuickTime window without opening a new one. The function is gone now, but ...

Stop the press! Mozilla has just released Firefox 3.6.4 -- you can download it by clicking 'Check for Updates' in the Help menu, or by visiting the Firefox website. Firefox 3.6.4 brings crash protection for Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime and Microsoft Silverlight plug-ins -- under Windows and Linux (Mac will have to wait, it seems). With 3.6.4, if a plug-in crashes, you will be able to simply ...

Though Macs ship with a reasonably good video player in the shape of QuickTime Player, the sheer number of different types of video files that are available out there can be frustrating to keep up with. You have to install various plugins to make QuickTime compatible with them all. Or, you can choose an all-in-one solution like VLC. Of course, some people are not fans of the look and feel of VLC. ...

Back in December of last year, out of process plugin support finally landed in Firefox's trunk builds. Today, CNet reports that Mozilla is working toward implementing the feature in a minor update - possibly Firefox 3.6.5. What it boils down to is that the crash-proofing kung fu could appear in more mainstream Firefox builds as early as this quarter. Firefox chief Mike Beltzner told CNet "It's ...

Ever click on a link to a song, only to find out that it leads to the iTunes Music Store? It's such a hassle, especially if you don't even use iTunes. Well, Apple just threw us a bone and added in-browser song previews. Now, clicking on a music store link will load up a preview page in your browser while iTunes (if you have it) loads the appropriate page in the music store. Check it out by ...

Whichever browser you happen to be using, there's more to keeping it up to date than running automatic updates for the browser itself. There are all those nasty plugins -- like Flash, Java, and Quicktime. Each one presents new opportunities for malware pushers, so an outdated plugin can put an unsuspecting web user at great risk. Mozilla announced a while back that they were tweaking the "What's ...

Hot on the heels of the release of QuickTime 7.5.5 yesterday, the makers of QuickTime Alternative have released version 2.7: with support for QuickTime 7.5.5 files. QuickTime Alternative is a Windows program for users who might occasionally want to watch a QuickTime file but don't want to install Apple's media player. The program is bundled with Media Player Classic, an open source Windows ...

Late last week, Intego Security released a press release detailing a new Trojan web variant, aimed at Mac users. A Trojan, known as OSX.RSPlug.A (or OSX/Puper), is installed on the system by the user, under the guise that it is a video codec, required for playing a free video file. The installer, under the clever name MacCodec, requires administrative access to install (meaning the user has to ...

Apple has just released iTunes 7.5, available for both Windows and Mac users. Per the Apple's Software Update utility: "iTunes 7.5 features the ability to activate iPhone wherever service is offered and support for Phase, a new interactive music game designed exclusively for iPod nano (third generation), iPod classic, and iPod (fifth generation). This release also includes bug fixes to improve ...

Waveexpress is releasing an updated version of TVTonic for Windows Vista. The big news is that the upgrade adds support for native QuickTime video playback using Windows Vista's Media Center interface. TVTonic is an application that works in conjunction with Windows Media Center to download and stream internet video using a 10-foot interface. In other words, you can watch video podcasts like ...

Long time Mac users complain that the Finder is antiquated, and sorely needs to be refreshed. Luckily, it looks like they're going to get their wish in the upcoming Leopard release. However, there's another basic Mac application that needs some attention: the Quicktime player. Admittedly, Apple has finally left the dark ages by allowing the free version of Quicktime to actually display ...

Apple has released QuickTime 7.2 for Mac and Windows. The update includes a bunch of bug fixes, updates to the H.264 codec, and oh yeah: support for full screen playback. That's right, the free version of QuickTime has finally caught up to pretty much every free media player on the market. Up until now, if you wanted to watch full screen video using QuicktTme, you had to pay $30 for a QuickTime ...

Here's one for the Mac folks: Perian is a free download for OS X that allows QuickTime to play video files in almost any format known to man. It uses the fantastic open source ffmpeg library to enable DivX, XviD, AVI, and even Flash Video files in a variety of configurations. According to the Perian web site, it will also be bundled with the next version of Democracy Player. Very cool. [Via ...

It's not often that Microsoft distributes third-party tools on its own web site, but it looks like they're making an exception for Flip4Mac, a plugin for QuickTime Player that lets Mac users to watch WMV and listen to WMA files without downloading Windows Media Player. It supports pretty much all the formats that WMP9 does, and since it's a QT plugin, it'll also let you watch streaming Windows ...