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Everything Else => Off Topic => Topic started by: Wizzo on December 27, 2007, 02:06:38 PM
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Adobe Systems released a security bulletin that basically says old versions of the Flash player are buggy as heck. Specifically, versions 9.0.48.0 and earlier contain nine different bugs that Adobe calls critical. Simply viewing a Web page is all it takes for a bad guy to take control of your computer. This is true on Macs and Linux too. The only way to be safe is to upgrade to the newest version, 9.0.115.0.
These bugs in the Flash player will, no doubt, be a huge target for the bad guys since almost every computer (Windows, Macs and Linux) has some version of Flash installed.
The right way of upgrading means uninstalling the prior version of Flash before installing the new version, not installing any other software other than the Flash player and being 100 percent sure that all old versions of the software have been removed.
Download the new version here (http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash)