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QuickTime backdoor allows takeover of Windows 7 machines, ancient line of code to blame

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 ...