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Adobe Flash: Should you block it?

May 29, 2008 By Daniel  
Filed under Computers, Software



When it comes to our PC security we should always be on our guard, everyday we are under attack from email spam to viruses in websites. The latest breaking news is about Adobe Flash and some people in the security industry are even going as far as saying it should be turned off or blocked for now.

In the last couple of days there has been reports of an “unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Flash being exploited”, but things are not that simple and many computer users are still confused and not sure what to-do. McAfee reported that this new vulnerability is similar to “CVE-2007-0071”, that issue affected the affected Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and earlier. Today we are finding out that this vulnerability seems to be the same one as before and we have all been told that the 9.0.124.0 version of Adobe Flash is not vulnerable.

To confuse matters even more, PC Mag are reporting that this “exploit is affecting subsequent versions”, so are you protected or not? PC Mag is recommending that Flash Users (just about everyone) download a certain version and also report that information on how to disable Flash is a really hot at the moment.

If you want to know what version of Flash you are running, then you can find that out on Adobe here. The version PC Mag recommends you update to is here. You can easily get a free plugin for Firefox, its called “Flashblock” and as the names suggests, it blocks Flash.

Are you worried about this latest security issue with certain versions of the Adobe Flash Player?

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One Response to “Adobe Flash: Should you block it?”

  1. John Dowdell on May 29th, 2008 4:30 pm

    It’s true that reporting is often rushed and inaccurate these days. We need better ways to block it.

    Here’s source information:
    http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/

    The Adobe Security Team is still examining all angles of the report, but as of yesterday the consensus was emerging that “thousands of webpages” had been compromised by pointing to malformed SWFs on two Chinese servers, since removed, which couldn’t have harmed you anyway if your software was current.

    jd/adobe

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