I will check -I found the article by checking 'news' in Google. Right side 1/2 way down.

Thank you

QuickTime 6.5.2 is rather old... so the first thing we need to establish is what version of windows you're running....

 

the point being that QuickTime 7.x requires windows XP SP2 [or 2000 SP4].   If you're running an older version [win98 or ME], you may not be able to install 7.x

 

I have xp sp2 and thank you for the guidance.

I looked at my Quick Time which is 6.5.2 and the article said apple released 7.1.6 which patches the vulnerability.

I'm not techy so could you please advise me as to how I do this? I think I uninstall my old one from start >Quick Time >'uninstall Q.T. as I do not see the progam in "add remove". Or do I just click on the link and install over the old one?

Thank you

7.1.6 was just released yesterday, to fix certain security flaws... perhaps these were the ones you were concerned about:

 

http://macnn.com/articles/07/05/01/quicktime.716.fixes.flaw/

 

 

I believe the article you googled was this one:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131489-c,graphicsmultimedia/article.html

 

So, if you have version 7.1.5 or earlier, you should update it.

Please see my last post and any advice appreciated.

Thank you

first, check your article/information to see WHAT VERSION of quicktime has the vulnerability, and then see if you have that version or not.

 

EDIT:   As of this writing, the current version is 7.1. 6

let's play it extra-safe, especially since you have an older version.

 

1) UNinstall the older version.   Since you said you don't have QuickTime listed under ADD/REMOVE programs, but you do have a quicktime uninstaller available from your START menu, you can run the latter.

 

2) being extra careful, reboot your system.   I can't say this is absolutely required, but it certainly can't hurt.

 

3) download the new quicktime 7.1.6 from:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html

 

by default, it will offer you quicktime + iTUNES (a very large download)... if you only want the quicktime player (without itunes), you can make that selection.  also, choose which news/subscriptions [if any] you want, enter an e-mail address, and then proceed with the download [and installation].   hopefully, it will go smoothly from this point onward.  good luck

 

 

When I clicked on the uninstaller a box appeared that said," this short cut won't work as is -would you like to fix it od delete it"?

B/c the program is not in add/remove and this ?ghost "shortcut" appeared is it possible I deleted the program before? If I just choose delete could I then download the new one from the site you gave me? Thank you

when you indicated earlier that you had Q/T version 6.5.2 , did you actually run that program?  

or just find some reference to it??

 

Since you don't have an entry under ADD/REMOVE, and since the START-menu link to an uninstaller turned out to be a phantom, I would just ignore 6.5.2 at this point (if it's still really there... it's entirely likely that you had in fact uninstalled it).   If you're talking about deleting the "ghost" shortcut, that should be okay ---  but I wouldn't tamper with anything else.

 

Download and install the new 7.1.6.    Hopefully you'll get through that without any problems.  

 

Worst thing that can happen... in case you still have the 6.5.2 program on your system but have lost its uninstaller... is that you'll wind up with both versions.    [although it's possible that the new version will remove the old one.]