Adobe Flashplayer Security/Malware Question. Please Help!

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  1. poopson135, Mar 3, 2010

    poopson135 macrumors newbie

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    Sorry guys, I'm new to the forum and did not know where to post this malware question. I'm a little paranoid from past experiences and was wondering if I could get malware from Adobe Flashplayer if I downloaded it on the official Adobe.com site. I recentl reinstalled my system and am a little paranoid. Also, after I zeroed out my disks in the reinstall, there was about .4 gigabytes taken up in the reinstall screen. Is that supposed to be taken up?

    Thank you for your time
     
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  2. MacDawg, Mar 3, 2010

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    If you are downloading from Adobe's site I would say your risk of bringing anything unwanted into your system is extremely minimal

    Of course, some would classify Flash as malware... but I digress
     
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  3. Str8edgepunker, Mar 3, 2010

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    No. Certainly not now at least, so don't pay it any mind. Also that space is probably taken up by the formatting and by certain things such as the hfs+ journal and the like. But don't ask how to disable or remove it, because you need it. Extra hard drives are cheap enough to not worry about such things.
     
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