Comments on: Second Life Viewer Susceptible to Quicktime Security Flaw

By: Slartibartfast Magicthise

Slartibartfast Magicthise — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:05:40 +0000

Just wanted to pop in and kick U M in the nuts for making this is his personal MySpace page.

Word of advice: DON’T PANIC. S’not as grim as it sounds. Apple will have it patched before most users even know it existed, and U M will still be wondering what Chocolate Rain is all about.

By: Amanda Kirkorian

Amanda Kirkorian — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:03:25 +0000

My login screen is stuck on the TOS, it will not load =(

By: Masami Kuramoto

Masami Kuramoto — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:28:29 +0000

@ Blinders, #147
“why don’t you folks just switch to a more widely-used format? Go to WMA or mpeg.”

Quicktime isn’t a format. Most clips in SL are MPEG-4 already. The viewer is just using Quicktime to download and decode them.

Oh, and Windows Media is not exactly a “widely used format”.

By: Blinders Off

Blinders Off — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:12:24 +0000

@Joe Linden:
Joe, scuse, but to me Linden Lab’s position in this matter is absolutely senseless. If this exploit has existed ever since v 4.0 of Quicktime, it seems Apple shares LL’s habit of allowing significant bugs to continue for months and even years on end.

So instead of LL waiting for Apple to correct this problem (whenever that may be), why don’t you folks just switch to a more widely-used format? Go to WMA or mpeg.

Torley’s hints aren’t in Quicktime are they? Youtube isnt’ Quicktime is it? Switch to a better format, even if it means the system opens up a video window instead of broadcasting videos on a prim. I’m sure no one is going to complain all that much… and a video window might actually work better.

I mean, geeze LL, take the smart direction for once.

By: U M

U M — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:47:19 +0000

142 has a point. a dam ******* good point. Why wasnt this done? Well I tell you because the lindens themselves were late. Hence look at one of those remarks here. It appears that some if not many had no idea what so ever. typical……………….

By: Lex Neva’s thoughts » Disable QuickTime in SL

Lex Neva’s thoughts » Disable QuickTime in SL — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:18:42 +0000

[...] know you’ve all seen the warning that there’s a vulnerability in quicktime, but I just want to urge you to disable quicktime [...]

By: Sharla Meredith

Sharla Meredith — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:13:49 +0000

Same as 142, I can’t even log in at all as the updated TOS won’t load. It’s been 2-3 hours now, and I still can’t get in.

By: Oryx Tempel

Oryx Tempel — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:01:33 +0000

I’d recommend also alerting residents using the Message of the Day upon login. That way we’ll all see it while waiting to connect to servers, etc.

By: Beej Barbarossa

Beej Barbarossa — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:50:36 +0000

OK - So what do we do if the TOS page will not load??? I cannot choose to accept it - it’s greyed out. It’s been more than 10 minutes now - I’ve closed and reopened SL, cleared the cache, still not loading the page… no hourglass - no nothing… just shows ‘loading…’ :((((

By: Eclaire Looming

Eclaire Looming — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:39:00 +0000

head up if u r SL and bothering to read this… heavy lag..tp not working