A recent blog post from computer security firm Trend Micro announced that they had found 2 potential security vulnerabilities in QuickTime for Windows, and that a fix for those issues would not be forthcoming as Apple have withdrawn support for the Windows version of QuickTime. Consequently they recommend Uninstalling QuickTime for Windows as soon as possible. This is also the recommendation of US-CERT, the US government’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team.
Links:
Trend Micro Blog Post
US-CERT Alert
Apple QT For Windows Download Page
How does this affect LiveCode and our users? Our media player object has been based on QuickTime, on Windows and Mac. There is fallback support to use the old Windows MCI system, however this has been around since the days of Windows 3.1 and is no longer supported by Microsoft. Clearly it is now necessary to remove our reliance on Quicktime and move to a modern implementation of the player object. Happily, we have just done that, and the solution is available to you in the latest LiveCode release.
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