Three Vulnerabilities Discovered in Real Player

prostoalex writes "British Next-Generation Security Software discovered three vulnerabilities in popular Real Player. A malicious attacker can execute arbitrary code by offering corrupted RealAudio stream. Real Networks posted the instructions on dealing with security flaws."

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Re:I miss Progressive Networks...

[wankledot]

Very well said.

It's very sad for me to see what's happened to Real. I worked there for over a year recently, and I really wish they could turn things around move back to what they did well back in the day.

They need to:
1) fire the entire marketing team. They're horrible
2) lose any of the quick-money things they do (ads, tricking people into paying for the Plus player or *pass accounts) and focus on rebuilding a quality user base.
3) Throw away all the 325 million customer records they have, and stop the spam.
4) Own up to the fact that most people hate them, and the only users that don't have a problem with Real are the ones that don't know them well enough yet. You can only burn so many users until they come back to burn you.

The saddest thing is that the people who work there genuinely care. They are really talented, and they all know what they SHOULD be doing in order to succeed. Especially the people that work on the actual player. But things can't change until the word comes down from the top. Rob needs to have an epiphany and turn the ship around fast, otherwise they'll be selling what's left to Sony and AOL.