QuickTime for Windows has dangerous security vulnerabilities that let attackers take over your computer, but Apple won’t be updating it to fix them. It’s time to uninstall it. Annoyingly, Apple only announced this in a statement to. Apple hasn’t announced it on its own website, and doesn’t seem to be making a real effort to warn people about this outdated program. They’re even still offering it for download on their website with no warning!

If you’re using a Mac, don’t worry. Apple’s QuickTime for Mac is still supported with security updates. Only the Windows version is dead and rotting. Why (and How) You Should Uninstall QuickTime For Windows RELATED: QuickTime for Windows is vulnerable to two security attacks that would allow an attacker to run code on your computer if you visited a web page or played a downloaded file. It’s particularly exploitable thanks to its browser plug-in. If you’re using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, which still support the plug-in, you can be compromised just by visiting a web page. Google Chrome no longer does supports these old plug-ins, but Chrome users shouldn’t get too complacent. Even downloaded video files could exploit the desktop version of Apple’s QuickTime.

Unfortunately, Apple is no longer updating QuickTime for Windows, so these flaws–and any future ones–will never be fixed. QuickTime for Windows will just become less and less secure over time, like.

Apple simply stopped updating its Windows application without properly informing its users. Although Apple hasn’t asked directly asked you to stop using QuickTime for Windows, you definitely should.

Even the US government is advising this. To uninstall QuickTime, open the Control Panel, click “Uninstall a program” under Programs, select “QuickTime” in the list, and click “Uninstall.” The QuickTime uninstaller will remove both the QuickTime desktop application and the QuickTime browser plug-in. If you don’t see QuickTime in the list here, you don’t have QuickTime installed. Problem solved! How to Play QuickTime Videos on Windows But what if you still have some old QuickTime files you need to play? No problem, it’s actually easy to play QuickTime movies on Windows without QuickTime.

A powerful multimedia technology with a built-in media player, QuickTime lets you view Internet video, HD movie trailers, and personal media in a wide range of file formats. And it lets you enjoy them in remarkably high quality. It’s a multimedia platform. Video from your digital camera or mobile phone. A movie on your Mac or PC.

There’s no real loss here. “QuickTime videos” are.mov and.qt files. Magic jack download free windows 10. However, these are simply “containers” that contain video and audio tracks encoded with other codecs. QuickTime has supported a wide variety of codecs over its history, and more modern.mov files are likely just H.264 MPEG-4 (MP4) files with a different container wrapped around them. These.mov files are becoming less common in favor of.mp4 files, which are more cross-platform.

VLC will play.mov files just fine. It’s a media player swiss army knife that will play practically anything you throw at it, and we’ve always had success when using VLC to play QuickTime.mov movies. So, just to play QuickTime videos and practically any other type of media file. How to Play QuickTime Content on the Web The vast majority of websites have now dropped Apple’s QuickTime plug-in, just as they’ve dropped MIcrosoft’s Windows Media Player plug-in and the RealPlayer plug-in. You should encounter QuickTime content on the web only rarely, and only on old sites that need to be updated. Most modern websites use either or Adobe Flash, with a few holdouts perhaps stuck on Microsoft’s Silverlight. Once required QuickTime, but it no longer does.