[gui-talk] Important Security Update for Winamp

Fri Apr 24 16:22:42 UTC 2009

Fairly early.  You'll first get a choice of the types of installs and then
you'll see a list of things, five or six.  The first is unchecked by default
because it's the main part of Winamp. Then you'll see the others.  Check
those you want and press space bar to uncheck those you don't.  

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 11:25 AM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Important Security Update for Winamp

At what point in the sequence do you get an opportunity to uncheck Library? 
For instance, must you check the custom option under installation type in 
order to get a subsidiary screen with check boxes for ordinary components 
like that one? I don't remember being offered a choice about having the 
Library available. If it matters, the installation type I chose from a list 
was the one that's called Current, because I figured that would use my 
working copy of Winamp  as a model. But maybe that wasn't good thinking? 
Maybe I should have clicked classic?

Also, I do remember a dialogue late in the sequence that seemed to offer 
something like a list, but the items weren't accompanied by check boxes, or 
radio buttons, nor were they links you could choose by clicking on them. 
I'll bet that's where I screwed up. But you say if I just reject the Library

to begin with, I won't even get that dialogue?

Okay, so how do I say no to the Library? is it like I hypothesize, above? 
Or...?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 5:50 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Important Security Update for Winamp

First, you don't need to use your jaws curser to read any of these buttons.
In fact, checking the boxes is apt to be more accurate in this case if you
don't use it.  You should uncheck library since you don't use it anyway then
you won't have to worry about that last item to uncheck because it can be a
real pain.

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:23 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Important Security Update for Winamp

Albert,

I never just zip through an install wizard sequence pressing all the buttons

marked Next simply because the PC Cursor doesn't read the dialogue. Every
little window, I switch to the Jaws cursor and read everything, and find the

check boxes or radio buttons. And I avoided a number of things I did not
want with my new Winamp version. I did not notice I was accidentally
subscribing to some creepy service in one dialogue that would screw up my
interface and require me to learn some new hotkey. this I don't need. I'm
going to do a complete uninstall on this little sucker, and then install it
all over again. But will you or someone please

1. advise me if I need to follow any unusually careful steps in the way I
uninstall this, which seems to have installed itself over my slightly
earlier version?

2. which dialogue is it where I have to look out for it committing me to
something that winds up putting me in the Library when Winamp launches?

Thanks very much. What  a pain in the butt. But I've got that list of hotkey

commands for controlling playback and marking time spots and stuff, so I'm
not about to replace it with my Real Player or that other one (sorry, dog
howling across the driveway, can't think straight) . But I don't want this
to happen again.

Thanks very much.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Important Security Update for Winamp

They've added a new twist to the installation procedure.  The vary last item
tries to get you to agree to the addition of an online service.  Most of
them are free but agreeing to even one can cause the library to open when
you try to open the player.  There's probably a preference to be checked or
unchecked to get around this.  I got rid of the annoyance with this
installation but I had to hit control P then left arrow when the preferences
opened to make the library go away.  I did this until this new build because
I was too lazy to uninstall the program.

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:58 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Important Security Update for Winamp

Steve,

I took your advice. I downloaded and installed this new version of Winamp. I

believe I performed all the installations steps properly.
When it was all done, I went to the folder where I keep all my music files,
and clicked on one so that it would launch Winamp and I'd see if I could
still control it with the simple keystrokes I've learned for starting,
stopping, pausing and restarting a music file or other such program source.

Well., not only would these commands not affect the playing at all, but when

I pressed Insert T, expecting to be told the name of the running
application, what I heard was Winamp Library. Now, I don't use any functions

in Winamp but the player, in order to play audio files. I do not use or
understand the library ir anything related to that whole thing of storing
and arranging one's audio files in that way. So I was in a place I had no
idea how to get back to the familiar player. Pressing Alt F4 didn't even
stop the music nor end the application. Tabbing around just took me to some
labeled and some unlabeled  buttons for things to do with Library functions
and searches. There was no button that said the equivalent of "get out of
the library and return to the player interface.

So now I can click on a music file, but then I just have to allow it to play

until it stops of its own accord. that's bearable for a three-minute pop
song. But I wouldn't even play anything longer on it because then I'd have
to fool around with  Control Alt Delete and eventually maybe just exit all
other running apps and restart Windows in order to stop it..

There's something easy here that I just don't understand. How do I get my
regular  Winamp  player interface to launch when I click on a music file,
and never again see this library screen?

Thanks.

From: "Steve Pattison" <srp at internode.on.net>
To: "Access L" <access-l at access-l.com>; "VIP L" <vip-l at softspeak.com.au>;
"PC Audio" <pc-audio at pc-audio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:13 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] Important Security Update for Winamp

Winamp version 5.552 is now available.  This version of Winamp fixes an
important security issue in Winamp

* Fixed: [gen_ff] memcpy integer overflow vulnerability in maki script
loading:

One place where you can download this version of Winamp from is at
<http://www.majorgeeks.com/Winamp_5_Full_d2490.html>www.majorgeeks.com/Winam
p_5_Full_d2490.html

Regards Steve
Email:  srp at internode.on.net
MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
Skype:  steve1963
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