The wise men at Encyclopedia Dramatica have it just right excerpts: QuickTime is a popular Virus often found on Mac OS X, but is commonly mistaken as a media player brought to you by the lovely people from Apple. Like plenty of other Apple software, it is offered to you free of charge, but will consistently harass you to upgrade to a paid version. .. QuickTime for PC is in essence, a way for Apple to justify their own claims that PC's are inferior by hijacking your format settings and running useless crap in the background. Its footprint is so large that even fast PC's are permanently bogged down. Even if you uninstall it, the damage has already been done. The solution is to install QuickTime Alternative instead of Apple's useless piece of shit for software.
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Quicktime On 4/17/16, Nick Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Wise People, > > According to this article, Quicktime is so out of date and so unsupported > as > to be a major security hazard. > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/04/15/windows-users-u > ninstall-apples-quicktime-now/?tid=pm_business_pop_b > > This article reminds me of an hysterical email I once received [and fell > for] which commanded me to delete a certain file from my computer, only to > discover that it was pretty much essential to the operation of the > computer. > The version of Quicktime I have on my computer was installed only two > months > ago? Does Apple software really have such a short shelf life? > > Why bother to write malware, when you can just write blog post telling > idiots like me to drive a spike through their computers, AND we will do it! > > What are we "citizens" to think? > > Nick ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
