Hackers could worm into Apple's QuickTime
Iain Thomson, 07 Nov 2005
Four critical flaws hit popular media player
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Yes. . .
Maybe one day we will actually see a viral/worm/trojan attack on the Mac. Actually I can recall one guy that actually erased his home directory because he ran a shell script that required his admin passwd that recursively deleted his files.
Posted by: Ron Bannon, 07 Nov 2005VERY Misleading
The headline for this story is VERY misleading. I checked my QT player to make sure mine was updated. (it is) Would the author like to explain his reasons for just such a headline? Hackers have NOT attacked the QT player, or any piece of Macintosh software. I think that fact is important, and a valuable fact that our Win XP using friends would like to know.
Posted by: Tim Bush, 07 Nov 2005Good GOd I'm sick of these security companies
It's like, "WATCH OUT! Don't go outside! There are MADMEN IN CARS driving up and down the street and it's possible you may be HIT by a DRUG-CRAZED PSYCHO ON ACID resulting in your DEATH. Only our patented HELMET can save your life."
I pay increasinly little attention to these scare-mongers, which is a very bad thing - some day they may not be crying wolf but it will be impossible for me to tell.
Posted by: maxplanar, 07 Nov 2005Title a Misrepresentation
I honestly cannot believe how totally dishonest and misrepresentative the title to this article was.
1) It implies that hackers attacked QuickTime. That is false. In fact, no hacker or cracker has ever created any malware that is in the wild and that attacks QuickTime
2) It implies that it is still a problem. In fact, this was fixed with an update (to 7.0.3) a month ago! You did not even mention that the fix for this was available before it was announced.
I respectfully request that you start using some journalistic integrity and change both the title and the omission.
Posted by: Don Kraig, 07 Nov 2005Very Misleading Article Title
Hackers didn't do anything, Apple patched security holes. there is a difference
Posted by: Tom Boucher, 07 Nov 2005
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