8 of the 10 Top Security Flaws Used By Cyber-Criminals This Year Were Flash Bugs (recordedfuture.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Adobe Flash Player provided eight of the top 10 vulnerabilities used by exploit kits in 2015. Angler is currently the most popular exploit kit, regularly tied to malware including Cryptolocker. Vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Silverlight are also major targets. All of these are the conclusions of a Recorded Future report.

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And the rest we're probably Jave, Acrobat, and OS

[msimm]

I uninstalled Flash about 4 months ago. Guess what...the web still works. Even the questionable video sites I use work (or at least > 50%, which is enough). Sites that insist on requiring flash in 2015 probably haven't been relevant since 2010. Sites that require wonky plugins had better be for work and get relegated to a Microsoft browser product I don't use for anything else.

Re:Can windows PC runs without Adobe Flash?

[JaredOfEuropa]

When I last replaced my PC, it was a good while before I felt compelled to install Flash on it again. These days, very few sites require it, even the dodgy Eastern European porn sites and equally dodgy advertising rings seem to have shied away from it. I have Flash installed but the browser is set to block it unless specifically allowed. The last time I activated Flash was to watch a news program on some local TV channel's site.