The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team has advised Windows users running Apple's QuickTime to uninstall the software to mitigate any future security risks. The advice falls under alert TA16-105A on the United States Computer Readiness Team website, and has been issued in response to Apple announcing that it will no longer be providing security updates for QuickTime on the Windows platform. This alert is intended to provide information to all Windows users running Apple's QuickTime extensible multimedia framework.