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You meet the users where they are to stop them doing the stupidest shit imaginable. You have no idea how much this paid off. The number of infected media players people downloaded in the age before Windows Media Player had more than three codecs is unimaginable Who knows if I saved the firm

An exposure analysis would say hey people having VLC is a source of vulnerability because the parsers are not exactly strong and easy to exploit. And I would come back and tell them people are literally directly installing malware on their computers. They run the EXE. Is that good enough for you?

Did they not already have MediaPlayer on their machines? And how did users get permission to install the crap players in the first place?

The thing with VLC is that out of the box, it can play most formats you're going to find.

The most surreal moment in my IT career was sitting at a workstation in a Tyvek suit clearing viruses from a laptop looking up at a banner that read "THAAD Lab". '03 or '04 - Honeywell campus in Clearwater. They were bleeding money. We restarted the clear 3 times because users kept reinfecting.