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QuickTime died on Windows

QuickTime died on Windows. We could summarize so messages disseminated by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, and by Trend Micro who claim that Apple has not taken other security updates for QuickTime on Windows. It arrived before the note Trend Micro, followed by that of the US team for information security, and the warning is to uninstall the media player signed Apple on Windows PC.

Trend Micro warns of two new serious vulnerabilities discovered on the application of Apple that could lead to the execution of malicious code remotely. The potential attacker could gain access to a target computer by pushing it to download a file. At the time of writing it seems that the vulnerability is not never been exploited, but now that has been disclosed to the public, is likely to be targeted early by malicious software teams.

Apple has never officially announced the intentions do not want to end the QuickTime support on Windows, but the company would recently informed Trend Micro that "the product would soon be deprecated on Windows and that the seller would issue instructions for its complete removal." Since then, Apple has continued to maintain silence on the subject. With two new security vulnerabilities discovered and the company intends to release no further update, the user does not have many choices.

According to the agency of the US government the only solution for Windows systems owners is to uninstall QuickTime from their systems:

"The computers running QuickTime for Windows will continue to run even after the end of support," the statement said. "Use unsupported software, however, can increase the risks from viruses and other security threats. Among the potentially negative consequences we are loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability of data, as well as damage to system resources or files business. the only solution to alleviate the problem is to uninstall QuickTime for Windows. "

The situation does not surprise us too much: the web plug-in QuickTime for Windows has been disabled by default in recent months (with the latest update), and the company has never updated the application more widely way support the latest Microsoft operating systems, Windows 8 and Windows 10. the alternative to the company's stand-alone media player is iTunes, with software that are now independent of each other for a long time. We expect in the coming weeks an official statement coming from Cupertino.

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