Security Holes Found in Winzip and Quicktime

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Rich Tate

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This story was first published on Thursday, so you may have seen it. For those of you who haven’t, there are some freshly discovered exploits involving Quicktime and Winzip that could potentially lead to malicious software being installed on your machine.

The attacks involve malicious Web sites rigged with multiple exploits, Symantec said in a security alert. The sites appear to be that of a trusted financial institution, but instead attempt to silently install keystroke-logging software, according to Symantec. Links to the sites are likely advertised in spam, it said.
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That's a truly funny way to look at it, but as with most flaws, yes. ;)

Pass it on to your pals. :)
 
we need to get out into space. alot more dangerous and easy to kill yourself out there, would have a positive effect on the gene pool ide imagine.
 
Huh? Winzip? Haven't heard that name since WinRar proved to be better years ago. :p
 
cliche said:
quicktime alternative ftw
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so true, along with real alt

quick time and real player are bannished and will never ever get to set foot on any of my pc's, shit software FTL
 
EVIL-SCOTSMAN said:
quick time and real player are bannished and will never ever get to set foot on any of my pc's, shit software FTL
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I have no "alternative" ;) on OS X, but I feel the same way about my Windows systems. QT/iTunes and RealPlayer = B7.
 
I thought Apple products didnt have flaws.:p I dont use either one so Im good to go.
 
The-One said:
Does this affect SP2 machines at all ?
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The WinZip exploit requires that you use WinZip to simply open an affected file. That is a problem with WinZip, regardless of what Windows OS or SP you have. Like I and others said above, who still uses WinZip anyways? :p

The QuickTime flaw is with QuickTime itself, and affects not only Windows but also Mac OS X. From the MOAB back in January: http://news.com.com/QuickTime+zero-day+bug+threatens+Macs,+PCs/2100-1002_3-6146615.html
 
pxc said:
The WinZip exploit requires that you use WinZip to simply open an affected file. That is a problem with WinZip, regardless of what Windows OS or SP you have. Like I and others said above, who still uses WinZip anyways? :p

The QuickTime flaw is with QuickTime itself, and affects not only Windows but also Mac OS X. From the MOAB back in January: http://news.com.com/QuickTime+zero-day+bug+threatens+Macs,+PCs/2100-1002_3-6146615.html
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Thank you
I was told by someone that I was not paying attention since this was for SP1 machines only.
If you're right then I was right. I was also telling them to use winrar instead of winzip but they said I was a know it all and STFU.

My teacher in college also said that he won't purchase winrar when winzip is free.

I'm just hoping he will catch on soon.

Win-RAR FTW

Thanks
PXC
 
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