To download VLC Media Player, you'll first need to visit the official website- videolan.org Once you're on the website, click on the "Download VLC" button . Source: about 1 year ago

Just get VLC from videolan.org (not some other download site). Source: about 1 year ago

Did you install from https://videolan.org? Source: over 1 year ago

If you want to play media files you already have, then that's a different story. When I started driving, my TV could play x264 .mp4 video files off of a USB memory stick, and that's what I used. From there, I went to a Raspberry Pi playing the files with VLC (videolan.org). Now, I have a Plex server at home, and I download the shows when I have decent Internet to watch on the nights I don't. Source: over 1 year ago

So it should be fine to use as long as you get it from a good source, VLC's website(videolan.org) or the Microsoft store(on Windows). The attack that was facilitated through VLC could have been used on any program really, VLC is just popular and well known, so it's more reliable to choose as a target. Source: over 1 year ago

(Opened article in Reader mode in browser, copied it, pasted into Markdownpad, cleaned up article (removed image captions, MORE: lines), made the whole article a quote, and pasted here in the comments.). Source: about 2 years ago

(I used http://markdownpad.com/ to quickly format the quoted article for posting here on Reddit). Source: over 2 years ago