Editing RealPlayer (section)

==Reception==
Past versions of RealPlayer have been criticized for containing [[adware]] and [[spyware]]<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032500470.html |date=March 25, 2008 |title=Don't Like RealPlayer? You've Got Options |author=Bass, Steve |access-date=November 2, 2017 |archive-date=March 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328214342/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032500470.html |url-status=live }}</ref> such as [[Comet Cursor]].<ref name=pcworld>{{cite web |last=Tynan |first=Dan |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/125772/worst_products_ever.html?page=5 |title=The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time |publisher=PCWorld |date= |accessdate=2014-08-27 |archive-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818085443/https://www.pcworld.com/article/125772/worst_products_ever.html?page=5 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1999 security researcher Richard M. Smith dissected some of RealJukebox's [[network traffic measurement|network traffic]] and discovered that it was sending a unique identifier with information about the music titles to which its users were listening.<ref name=Smith>{{cite web|url=http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/realjb.htm |title=The RealJukebox Monitoring System |author=Richard M. Smith |work=computerbytesman.com |date=October 31, 1999|access-date=February 7, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203105348/http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/realjb.htm |archive-date=February 3, 2007 }}</ref><ref name=Borrus>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_07/b3668067.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000304134859/http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_07/b3668067.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 4, 2000|title=The Privacy War of Richard Smith|author=Amy Borrus|date=February 14, 2000|access-date=February 5, 2007|work=businessweek.com}}</ref> RealNetworks issued a patch, and the spyware was removed<ref name=Tynan25 /> in version 1.02. Their download page stated RealJukebox included privacy enhancements and supplied the link to their updated privacy policy.<ref name=RNpatch>{{cite web|url=http://www.realnetworks.com/company/privacy/jukebox/privacyupdate.html |title=RealJukebox Update download page|date=November 28, 1999|publisher=Real Networks|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991128142520/http://www.realnetworks.com/company/privacy/jukebox/privacyupdate.html|archive-date=November 28, 1999|access-date=August 17, 2010}}</ref><!-- [http://www2.digitalenterprise.org/seminar/smith.html] link defunct, excluded from web.archive.org --> 

''[[PC World]]'' magazine named RealPlayer (1999 Version) as number 2 in its 2006 list "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time", writing that RealPlayer "had a disturbing way of making itself a little too much at home on your PC--installing itself as the default media player, taking liberties with your Windows Registry, popping up annoying 'messages' that were really just advertisements, and so on."<ref name=Tynan25>{{cite web|url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/125772/worst_products_ever.html?page=2|title=The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time|first=Dan|last=Tynan|date=March 26, 2006|access-date=September 5, 2012|publisher=[[PC World (magazine)|PC World]]|archive-date=March 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329095850/https://www.pcworld.com/article/125772/worst_products_ever.html?page=2|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2007, it placed RealPlayer, versions 1996–2004, at number 5 in its list ''The 20 Most Annoying Tech Products''.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.pcworld.com/article/130638/article.html?page=2 | title = The 20 Most Annoying Tech Products | first = Dan | last = Tynan | date = April 16, 2007 | access-date = February 14, 2016 | publisher = [[PC World (magazine)|PC World]] | archive-date = December 13, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161213184306/http://www.pcworld.com/article/130638/article.html?page=2 | url-status = dead }}</ref> 

[[US-CERT]] has issued multiple security advisories reporting defects which allowed remote sites to use RealPlayer to execute attack code.<ref>{{cite web |
url=http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-0121 |
publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security, National Cyber Security Division |
title=Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0121 (RealNetworks RealPlayer 11.0 through 11.1, RealPlayer SP 1.0 through 1.1.5, Mac RealPlayer 11.0 through 12.0.0.1444, and Linux RealPlayer 11.0.2.1744) |
author=[[US-CERT]] |
date=December 14, 2010 |
access-date=October 2, 2014 |
archive-date=October 6, 2014 |
archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006071652/http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-0121 |
url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |
url=http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-3113 |
publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security, National Cyber Security Division |
title=Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2014-3113 (RealNetworks RealPlayer before 17.0.10.8) |
author=[[US-CERT]] |
date=July 7, 2014 |
access-date=October 2, 2014 |
archive-date=October 6, 2014 |
archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006115010/http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-3113 |
url-status=live }}</ref>