Media Players Have Critical Flaws

How many people everyday use some form of media player? There has been extensive research showing that media players are seriously vulnerable to potential threats. Malicious code can spread through the machine and infect computers and files similar to what a virus does. This is relatively bad due to the fact most of the people using this media player are not well educated in what could happen. There are millions of videos and music files downloaded each day, and this could be used to turn the computer into a weapon to attack itself. Many of the vulnerabilities were in commercial players but were not able to be released do to reason that the players are commercial and well known. The companies of these players were trying to fix the exploits as soon as they could. A great example of how bad this could impact your computer is how that YouTube automatically loads a movie when you click on the correct link. This would mean you basically have no defense from stopping it from happening. In the coming weeks there should be a fix to this problem but it is just something that could turn into a giant problem.