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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple will no longer fix Quicktime security bugs (only solution is to uninstall)
Date: 15 Apr 2016 21:05:53 GMT
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On 2016-04-15, Rene lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> wrote:
> On 4/15/2016 2:36 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2016-04-15, Rene lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>> On 4/15/2016 10:47 AM, nospam wrote:
>>>> In article <ner1s1$15h2$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Marob Katon
>>>> <marobkaton@examples.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> yes you did.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> it didn't install itself.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is no way I installed it because I don't use it and I never
>>>>> would use it. Maybe it came with some malware?
>>>>
>>>> no
>>>
>>> It IS malware.
>>
>> How is it malware, in your opinion?
>
> It is hard to get rid of

Nonsense. I've installed and removed iTunes on Windows PCs over the
years more times than I care to keep track of; and it's a simple process
using the built-in Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs panel.  Anyone
who has used Windows more than an hour knows how to remove programs
you've installed. It's no big secret. More importantly the need to
uninstall software using the standard method to uninstall software does
not magically make it "malware" by any stretch of the definition. : ) 

> and is of no value on my system.

The actual value is providing video support to whatever application you
installed that required and therefore installed QuickTime during initial
setup. You apparently valued that software just enough to install it on
your computer. So there's that. ; )

Still not seeing the "malware"...

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