Comments on: Apple flaws put both Macs and PCs at risk

Patches arrive for more than 40 holes affecting QuickTime, used by Apple and Windows systems, and Mac OS X.

[tagban]

What a crock

First off, Quicktime isn't the first media player to be at risk. Look at Windows Media Player? There are so many security flaws in that its a joke. Winamp also, has many security issues which allow users to get virii from a simple wmv file.

I acknowledge Apple for actually fixing the problem instead of trying to cover it up like Microsoft usually does.

[tagban]

What a crock

First off, Quicktime isn't the first media player to be at risk. Look at Windows Media Player? There are so many security flaws in that its a joke. Winamp also, has many security issues which allow users to get virii from a simple wmv file.

I acknowledge Apple for actually fixing the problem instead of trying to cover it up like Microsoft usually does.

[Vegaman_Dan]

Unbiased Discussion?

I wonder if it is possible at all for *any* Apple / Mac / Microsoft / Windows story to not immediately be hit with the CNET MS bias angle, or that Macs are superior to PC's, or that my favorite color is blue- no, RED! AAAAAAAAAH!


Anyways, this story wasn't even about Macintosh. It was about Quicktime, an Apple product. A product that runs on both Windows and Macintosh, so.... well, any arguments about Macintosh or Windows are just unrelated noise.

Quicktime. It's a great format sponsored by a lot of movie companies for pushing their trailers. I like it for that sort of thing. I do NOT like it when it forces an installation of applications not required for the operation of Quicktime. I do not need iPodHelper.exe running on my system just in case I might some day decide to buy an iPod. I don't want iTunes running on my system, but you get them anyways. The fact that iPodHelper was installed and is now stealing resources away from the system is invasive.

It's not adware, it's not quite malware, but I'd say it's unwanted ware. I didn't ask for it to be installed and there it is anyways.

So, how about we talk about Quicktime, the area that the article actually talks about as opposed to the OS that the software runs on since it affects both Macs and PC's?

[alan_06]

well said

Well said about the junk softwares installed along with Quicktime plugin...

I've seen such ad tools in freewares but not to this extend of installing an unwanted itunes application around 35MB or something...

After installation I just went to the add/remove programs to remove itunesjunk. waste of bandwidth and time.

[Vegaman_Dan]

Unbiased Discussion?

I wonder if it is possible at all for *any* Apple / Mac / Microsoft / Windows story to not immediately be hit with the CNET MS bias angle, or that Macs are superior to PC's, or that my favorite color is blue- no, RED! AAAAAAAAAH!


Anyways, this story wasn't even about Macintosh. It was about Quicktime, an Apple product. A product that runs on both Windows and Macintosh, so.... well, any arguments about Macintosh or Windows are just unrelated noise.

Quicktime. It's a great format sponsored by a lot of movie companies for pushing their trailers. I like it for that sort of thing. I do NOT like it when it forces an installation of applications not required for the operation of Quicktime. I do not need iPodHelper.exe running on my system just in case I might some day decide to buy an iPod. I don't want iTunes running on my system, but you get them anyways. The fact that iPodHelper was installed and is now stealing resources away from the system is invasive.

It's not adware, it's not quite malware, but I'd say it's unwanted ware. I didn't ask for it to be installed and there it is anyways.

So, how about we talk about Quicktime, the area that the article actually talks about as opposed to the OS that the software runs on since it affects both Macs and PC's?

[alan_06]

well said

Well said about the junk softwares installed along with Quicktime plugin...

I've seen such ad tools in freewares but not to this extend of installing an unwanted itunes application around 35MB or something...

After installation I just went to the add/remove programs to remove itunesjunk. waste of bandwidth and time.

[beonedrine]

Kick ass economics and social defiance!

I'm getting the notion that these two camps (yes, fanboys ((that's fanboi's in Mac land)) included) will never get along and the only thing we will agree on is disagreeing.
I'm a fan of competition as I do not want a single OS in the entire world; It's not good for the user or the technical aspects of the community. What Mac is doing is pushing MS to produce something usefull and an enhancement in Vista, this is good. Vista will push Mac back... and hopefully this will continue and help produce integrated and secure desktop computing enviornments.
I feel that a lot of these things are hurting us, the consumers, developers, and other geeks in the business (yes, I'm a geek, you gotta problem with that?!?!) and is causing a lot of harm to the industry.
Mac using AAC, MS using WMA, Sony with ATRAC3 Plus, Real using R whatever it is, these things are only hurting the consumer as the Corporate Giants are trying to get the most dollars and have their format win-out.
These same ideas are huring the desktop industry as well as simple things like office applications cannot be easily recieved, viewed and edited on varrying OS's, why?? Because everyone wants to own everythin!
I do enjoy the ongoing lenghty battles and quips within these forums, and I'd to thank cnet for providing some intellectual (and sometimes downright ignorant) conversations to take place, but I'd like to push them and others (who do nothing but promote and publish content within the technical community) to begin pushing these corporations to work together for the betterment of consumer computing!!!!!!!!

After this is taken care of, monkeys will begin to wipe my *ss and pigs will replace the jet as mode's of transportation.......but it doesn't hurt to hope does it!?!?!?

[beonedrine]

Kick ass economics and social defiance!

I'm getting the notion that these two camps (yes, fanboys ((that's fanboi's in Mac land)) included) will never get along and the only thing we will agree on is disagreeing.
I'm a fan of competition as I do not want a single OS in the entire world; It's not good for the user or the technical aspects of the community. What Mac is doing is pushing MS to produce something usefull and an enhancement in Vista, this is good. Vista will push Mac back... and hopefully this will continue and help produce integrated and secure desktop computing enviornments.
I feel that a lot of these things are hurting us, the consumers, developers, and other geeks in the business (yes, I'm a geek, you gotta problem with that?!?!) and is causing a lot of harm to the industry.
Mac using AAC, MS using WMA, Sony with ATRAC3 Plus, Real using R whatever it is, these things are only hurting the consumer as the Corporate Giants are trying to get the most dollars and have their format win-out.
These same ideas are huring the desktop industry as well as simple things like office applications cannot be easily recieved, viewed and edited on varrying OS's, why?? Because everyone wants to own everythin!
I do enjoy the ongoing lenghty battles and quips within these forums, and I'd to thank cnet for providing some intellectual (and sometimes downright ignorant) conversations to take place, but I'd like to push them and others (who do nothing but promote and publish content within the technical community) to begin pushing these corporations to work together for the betterment of consumer computing!!!!!!!!

After this is taken care of, monkeys will begin to wipe my *ss and pigs will replace the jet as mode's of transportation.......but it doesn't hurt to hope does it!?!?!?