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92% of Windows PCs Vulnerable To Zero-Day Attacks On Flash
CWmike writes "More than 9 out of every 10 Windows users are vulnerable to the Flash zero-day vulnerability that Adobe won't patch until Thursday, Danish security company Secunia says. According to Secunia, 92% of the 900,000 users who have recently run the company's Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility have Flash Player 10 on their PCs, while 31% have Flash Player 9. (The total exceeds 100% because some users have installed both.) The most-current versions of Flash Player — 9.0.159.0 and 10.0.22.87) — are vulnerable to hackers conducting drive-by attacks hosted on malicious and legitimate-but-compromised sites. Antivirus vendors have reported hundreds, in some cases thousands, of sites launching drive-bys against Flash."
The fix to all Flash problems lies here on Adobe's own web site: How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control.
You should get that lisp checked out.
I am the lawn!
Will Flash just die already!
There's always Silverlight... No, really!
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
An interesting approach, using IP addresses as version numbers
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
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Wish I could, but it appears to be highly trademarked.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
That's good to know!
I stopped reading there. Obviously a slow news day.
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