Are you worried about Conflicker?

[Timby]

\Which files? Are these things online you can point me to?

Any of the Star Trek trailers will do as fine examples. Plays 480p just fine, but at 720p and up the video gets too choppy to watch.

Not on my system, it doesn't. And mine has a slower microprocessor than yours.

Keep in mind that Bolio is running Windows; for many years, Apple's development of QuickTime and iTunes for the Windows environment has lagged far behind its Mac OS work. It wasn't until recent versions that the Windows form of iTunes was really usable, for heaven's sake.

 

[JuanBolio]

\Which files? Are these things online you can point me to?

Any of the Star Trek trailers will do as fine examples. Plays 480p just fine, but at 720p and up the video gets too choppy to watch.

Not on my system, it doesn't. And mine has a slower microprocessor than yours.

I ain't sayin' Quicktime doesn't work. I'm saying it doesn't work as well as I'd like for me on my machine. As for why... I have no idea.

Keep in mind that Bolio is running Windows; for many years, Apple's development of QuickTime and iTunes for the Windows environment has lagged far behind its Mac OS work. It wasn't until recent versions that the Windows form of iTunes was really usable, for heaven's sake.

Could be... though I am running version 7.5.

 

[Lindley]

Well, to be fair, WMP on Macs is pretty crappy too.

I'm not sure how MPlayer can be so much better than either of them in most ways, but it is....

 

[archeryguy1701]

So it's April 1st and the internet's still here...

Reminds you of all the Y2K hysteria, doesn't it?

The thing to keep in mind is that while April 1 is the day where Conficker stops being dormant, it doesn't have its marching orders programmed into it. It's just searching the internet for orders. The virus maker can still launch the attack at any time.
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/132464
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/135840;_ylt=AuM5hhPjk5xB6oVEdqf5wInxMJA5

Personally, I'm not worried. I keep all my stuff up to date and scanned, and I got my friend's machines updated and scanned yesterday. In all honesty, there is a part of me that wants to see the attack launched. There are over 9 million known infections at the moment, so depending on what the attack is, it could end up being something huge. If nothing else, that many infected hosts could be use to either launch several simultaneous Denial of Service attacks against a couple of groups, or it can target one or two online entities and just keep hitting it with wave after wave of infected machines.

But, no matter what the worm is designed to do, it has the potential of having a huge effect. On a small scale, it could get computer and internet users more savvy about their online security and defending their machines. On a larger scale, depending on what goes down and how severe it is, something like this could prompt governments and militaries to look more into expanding warfare into cyberspace.