VLC Flaw Found - Time To Update

[GhostShip]

I,m sure most folks have this versatile video player to hand on their systems 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031800874.html

A flaw in the widely-used open-source VLC media player could allow an attacker to execute harmful code on a PC.
The problem stems from a buffer overflow that can occur when the player processes subtitle files used for movies, according to a security advisory

The vulnerability existed before VLC was upgraded to version 0.8.6e in late February, but the bug appears to have escaped the last round of patches, wrote Luigi Auriemma in a note.

Go Here for an Upadte folks

http://www.videolan.org/

This is a decent bit of free software folks and its even more reassuring it is being updated regularly, Cheers to the VideoLan folks 

[Lagerlout666]

This is a very handy tool, those who have never come accross it probably dont know that this little programme will playt movies while they are downloading, allowing to make sure they arent getting those nasty wrong named files that some morons like to share about the place.

Follow that link peeps and never be suckered again

[Cobra]

I first downloaded VLC almost 2 years ago. I was tired of constantly having to find and install new codecs for each and every video that I found on the web. (I am something of a fun image and video collector). It's a great program.

I also recommend Media Player Classic for similar reasons and it's lack of bulk (a single 4MB file).