Uninstall QuickTime for Windows Now!

[Joe]

Bob Rankin has an excellent column on uninstalling QuickTime for Windows.

[QUICK] Uninstall QuickTime for Windows

Apple has abandoned QuickTime for Windows and refuses to patch it or do anything about vulnerabilities.
Apple is recommending you uninstall it.

QuickTime for Windows: Unsafe

... [T]here are two good reasons to uninstall QuickTime for Windows. First, Apple has ended all support for it, including security patches. (QuickTime for Apple products is still supported.) Second, Trend Micro has discovered two unpatched critical vulnerabilities in QuickTime, and Apple is not going to fix them.

Trend Micro revealed the two zero-day exploits when Apple announced it isn’t going to patch them, in accordance with Trend Micro’s “Zero Day Initiatives Disclosure Policy.”

Rankin explains how to uninstall QuickTime for Windows:

To uninstall QuickTime for Windows, click Start, open Control Panel, then click Programs and Features. Find QuickTime in the list of programs, right-click, then select Uninstall. Don't be surprised if you get a scary-looking popup asking "Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes on this computer?" That's just the QuickTime uninstaller. Click Yes, and QuickTime will be removed from your computer.

I uninstalled it myself just before posting this message here.

 

[Capstan]

Thanks for the heads-up, Joe. QuickTime is history.

 

[Chryssie]

Bye bye Quick Time!

 

[robert99]

It's been un-useable in Windows for a couple of years (in my experience).

 

[Joe]

It's been un-useable in Windows for a couple of years (in my experience).

I guess my experience differs from yours. I would occasionally look for sound files on the internet, try to download them, and find them running in QuickTime instead.

There is a chorus of people calling for everyone to uninstall QuickTime, from Bob Rankin to TrendMicrosystems to the Department of Homeland Security. It is hard for me to believe that all these people are alarmists.

 

[Joe]

Ian "Gizmo" Richards' techsupportalert.com newsletter has joined the chorus of people asking you to uninstall QuickTime for Windows.

You Need To Uninstall Quicktime For Windows

 

[Blobbenstein]

I did uninstall it the other day. It was like taking a dump.