Comments on: Security patches issued for RealPlayers

RealNetworks releases patches for its audio-video players in an effort to prevent attacks via buffer overflows.

[Bill Dautrive]

Sad

It is sad that 'professional' programmers can still write code that can be abused by buffer overruns. Avoiding them is a simple matter of paying attention to what you are doing.

[bobby_brady]

Does anyone use Realplayer anymore?

I forgot all about this software until I read the headlines.

real in linux

for those of us with linux, I know I use real player to see streaming media online. thanks to cnet for giving us the choice to use real instead of M$ formats