Music player for windows

[gertsy]

Which totally matches up entirely with my having used old (not even remotely current) versions of Winamp for over a decade and never once having been infected via it. Definitely a huge risk.

Just turn the damn Internet features off. It's super-freaking-easy.

Well CJ I agree with you on this one. People who think they need supported applications and patch update support for them definitely do.

Winamp don't use Java or Flash. Its a #@*&#@ 32 bit executable. One day its file requestor might stop working but at the mo she's a go.

[gertsy]

That's great news. I always loved Winamp although I don't use it now. This media player capability is interesting though. How does it go with 1080 mkv's?

As to Geits succinct point on JPGs crashing and executing code within the jpg file as an exit, I laughed and laughed until I saw the share price of McAfee now Intel.

[gertsy]

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(that being said, everything Geit said about infection vectors is 110% true, so do your homework on security if using older versions)

Cool, if you, Geit, or anyone else could send me one of the infected JPGs that miraculously knows the program that's executing it, and also knows what OS and potential runtime the viewer is running in, I will view it with glee.

Once I have run it I will mount it up alongside my stuffed Sasquatch and Unicorn head in the pool room.

Hopefully you were being ironic with the 110% if not it still made me smile.
But off topic.

Winamp on Windows will play high definition 1080 video ?

[gertsy]

Agree IMO it is THE Windows video player. Handbrake plus VLC = joy.

[gertsy]

I have never been able to play any videos properly with WinAmp with any quality. Definitely not 1080p. My current version refuses to play any videos period. I use WinAmp for music and VLC for movies.

I didn't think so.  It's more a music / sound file player than a media player.

As to malware in media files im well aware  of the Trojan website exposures through phishing. But interesting how that has been interpreted as local execution through an unknown media player/viewer. Still happy to have my ignorance enlightened by anyone willing to send through one of these elusive and dangerous files.