realplayer

Warning: If you're a REAL fan of RealPlayer, you could be in REAL trouble. That's the word coming from security experts iDefense Inc. Apparently, older versions of both RealPlayer and Helix Player are susceptible to a crucial security hole that ... could allow a hacker entry into a user's PC, whether it was running Windows, a Mac OS, or Linux. How is this possible? Evidently, it seems certain versions of the players can be subjected to buffer overflows, which by default could allow unauthorized code to be executed on a user's machine. That's enough to give an attacker control of the PC as a whole ... (view more)