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Adobe Flash Warning

Bambino — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:06:53 GMT

This affects Windows users. Please be aware.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/flash-exploit-browsers,news-20344.html

Re: Adobe Flash Warning

jonsie — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:20:34 GMT

@Bambino wrote:
This affects Windows users. Please be aware.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/flash-exploit-browsers,news-20344.html

Thanks for the heads up ☺

Re: Adobe Flash Warning

Cleoriff — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:32:24 GMT

@Bambino wrote:
This affects Windows users. Please be aware.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/flash-exploit-browsers,news-20344.html

Not even sure if this is similar to my experience last year......a message kept popping up about Adobe..informing me to update. I asked my other half as he is the tech savvy one..he thought it was OK we installed it and it did some damage to the computer...

When I checked with colleagues on another forum ...many of them had the same happen to them....

I think that one affected other users though .... not just Windows....

Re: Adobe Flash Warning

Bambino — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:45:04 GMT

If you don't already have it, this is a very good app, both for your laptop and desktop, and for your phone and tablet. The free version is fine for everyday purposes.

https://www.malwarebytes.org/lp/lp4/02_r/?gclid=CP7-iPHTrMMCFSIGwwodZZQACw

Re: Adobe Flash Warning

Cleoriff — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:53:27 GMT

@Bambino wrote:
If you don't already have it, this is a very good app, both for your laptop and desktop, and for your phone and tablet. The free version is fine for everyday purposes.
https://www.malwarebytes.org/lp/lp4/02_r/?gclid=CP7-iPHTrMMCFSIGwwodZZQACw

Thanks for that @Bambino We already have it but it will be helpful to others..

Re: Adobe Flash Warning

anticpated — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 20:13:30 GMT

In uncertain circumstances ike this, manual updates through official channels would be probably recommended.

Re: Adobe Flash Warning

anticpated — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 23:52:55 GMT

This is also a good idea to update to a browser that supports HTML5 as much as possible, independant memory for plug-ins like Flash or HTML5 and an anti-virus package that supports sandboxing meaning your important executables can be ~~effectively~~ shielded from virus attacks more effectively.

Surprisingly Avira and Komodo to my knowledge are the only two to support this out of the box. ESET has something called HIPS which is advanced heuristics which to some extent works very well although the detection rate isn't as good as say McAfee or Symantec the actual load on your system is very little.

Anyway...remember kids...don't flash!