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Adobe Hopes Pop-up Warnings Will Stop Office-Borne Flash Attacks

Posted by timothy on from the ms-bob-is-on-the-case dept.

tsamsoniw writes "In the wake of the most recent zero-day attacks exploiting Flash Player, Adobe claims that it's worked hard to make Player secure — and that most SWF exploits stem from users opening infected Office docs attached to emails. The company has a solution, though: A forthcoming version of Flash Player will detect when it's being launched from Office and will present users with a dialog box with vague warnings of a potential threat."

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  1. Re:Separate the code and the data by davester666 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    WTF is so convenient about having Word being able to display Flash content?

    Do a significant/noticeable number of people embed Flash content in their Word documents?

    How about Flash just preventing itself from running in non-browsers [and maybe their standalone Flash app]?

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