Users who are using Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 as well as Windows XP with Service Pack 2 are affected by a flaw that has been discovered recently on Apple’s multimedia viewer, QuickTime.

If a user opens a malicious file, a hacker could take full control of his or her computer according to Petko D. Petkov.

He said, “I highly doubt that anyone knows how to exploit this vulnerability. I haven’t shared the details with anyone, and the actual vulnerability is different enough to be rather challenging for even some of the most gifted hackers out there.”

Source: COMPUTERWORLD