Quicktime vulnerable? What does this mean for Sony Vegas and .MOV files?

[George Dean]

[Angelo Mike] “Found a solution. I downloaded a program simply called Adapter, which lets me turn mov files into mp4, and now they play fine.”

I tried the program ‘Adapter’ on a Prores 422HQ, DNxHD 220x, and Nikon h.264/avc file. The program errored on all three and would not convert!

Best Regards……George

[Angelo Mike]

[George Dean] “I tried the program ‘Adapter’ on a Prores 422HQ, DNxHD 220x, and Nikon h.264/avc file. The program errored on all three and would not convert!

Best Regards……George”

What did you try to convert them to? I successfully converted my files to mp4 but they wouldn’t open in Vegas. However, mpeg worked fine (it’s obviously not a perfect program, but it finally did the job for me after some experimenting).

[George Dean]

[George Dean] “I tried the program ‘Adapter’ on a Prores 422HQ, DNxHD 220x, and Nikon h.264/avc file. The program errored on all three and would not convert!”

[Angelo Mike] “What did you try to convert them to? I successfully converted my files to mp4 but they wouldn’t open in Vegas. However, mpeg worked fine (it’s obviously not a perfect program, but it finally did the job for me after some experimenting).”

I tried several conversions, the issue was the file I inputted was read, then Adapter reported an error, before the conversion. It may have been something with my installed copy or my system. I don’t need to convert my files, as I have Quicktime installed and will keep it installed until there is a verifiable issue with security risks. I just wanted to try Adapter to see first hand how it works, and reporting what I experienced with the program Adapter. At this point, it’s not worth my time to figure out why the Adapter appears not to work on my system.

Best Regards……George

[Paul Gregory]

What I ended up trying was to open the .MOV files in Handbrake where I selected the profile & saved them as MP4. The resulting files open in Vegas OK.

Thanks in advance

[Rob Clapham]

Hi all,

Sorry I’m a bit late to my own thread. Well, anyway in my first post, I said I couldn’t find where Apple officially pulled support for the product. But today I have found it – here is a link: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL837?locale=en_GB

Strange thing is, it is still available for download. I mean the article even goes on to say that this version “contains security updates…” But I don’t think these updates fix the issues Trend Micro have reported.

I’m beginning to think this is a bit of a non-issue… If most people have already uninstalled QuickTime then why would a potential attacker bother with the exploit? It’s kind of the same argument about Apple computers not getting viruses, it’s not that you can’t write viruses for Apple systems. But rather it’s far more unlikely because of the smaller user base. I just can’t find any other anti-virus outlet saying to uninstall the program for the same reasons as Trend Micro is suggesting.

Anyway, the latest version of QuickTime (7.7.9) at least uninstalls the QuickTime web browser plugin if it was previously installed. And doesn’t install it by default. So perhaps the answer is to just leave it and not use the QuickTime player.

Best, Rob

[Aaron Star]

“It’s kind of the same argument about Apple computers not getting viruses, it’s not that you can’t write viruses for Apple systems. But rather it’s far more unlikely because of the smaller user base.”

This is no longer the case, it was the case back on the old Mac OS. To me the X in OSX has more to do with the change to Unix as the core, than the a number. That opens up Apple systems to the same vulnerabilities and exploits as Unix, and there a ton of them. The installed base of Unix is huge and so there is potential to write worms or other exploits. iOS is simply a variant on OS, and so that too has a problems. Hence the celebrity text stealing and other high profile articles in the news.

I think a mass majority of the apple users still believe your statement, which is simply not contemporary. Since Mac users are not tech oriented folks, the risks are probably greater than an to an average Windows or Unix user.

[John Rofrano]

[Aaron Star] “I think a mass majority of the apple users still believe your statement, which is simply not contemporary. Since Mac users are not tech oriented folks, the risks are probably greater than an to an average Windows or Unix user.”

Actually the reason that Mac’s are safer is because users do not run as administrators like on Windows. This limits the damage that a virus can do. Modern versions of Windows have tried to emulate this but as we all know, User Access Control is the first thing that everyone on Windows disables because some software doesn’t work properly with it on or just because the prompts are annoying, once again making Windows users more vulnerable. No system is impervious to viruses but running with full administrative rights is just plain asking for trouble. Macs don’t work that way.

~jr

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