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Adobe Releases 'Critical' Update for Flash After Security Vulnerability Discovered
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Good news, login to Netflix, Account -> Playback Settings, you'll notice a new option "Prefer HTML5 Player instead of Silverlight"
Thanks! I'll check this out.
I heard about it but I remember something about it being Windows 8.1 only, unless that's something else.
I'll have to update our labs at work, which need Flash. (And heck, I just updated Flash a couple weeks ago!) But at home, I have a clean install on my new Mac and have decided to abandon Adobe. I gave up Photoshop for Pixelmator and am creating multimedia with Hype instead of Flash. There are a few sites that treat my computer as a mobile device because there's no Flash player. And there are a few others that pester me to install Flash. Outside of that, the lack of Flash hasn't bothered me at all.
What piece of software do you use that doesn't have a plethora of security issues?
They've made quite a few changes, whether you noticed them or not is another story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player#Release_history
Now the Java plugin on the other hand...
I find it funny when people say that Flash hasn't evolved in the last couple years. It just proves they have blinders on.
Given the fact that the update is exactly one build number higher than the old? I think there was a vulnerability found and they quickly patched it. As in, there was a vulnerability found eight after they patched and it was considered important enough to rush a fix.
A zero-day vulnerability is one with an exploit in the wild before the vulnerability can be identified/mitigated by the application's development team. An exploit is actively being used and none of the affected computers have a fix in place.
I would argue that they're not making their product better (Adobe that is), but simply trying to keep the same product, plugging the security holes as others find them. That is not very comforting as far as I'm concerned. Nor is it moving forward - something that Adobe seems to have issues with.
Then you'd be arguing an incorrect point. They have been improving Flash. To not see it is to not be looking at the huge improvements. Even the OS X version is better than it was when I first got my MBA.
I mean come on, everything I see that uses Flash has exactly the same interface as before!
Ok, thanks. I'm aware a zero-day exploit, exploits a vulnerability that becomes known in that context as a zero-day vulnerability. But I didn't realise that the vulnerability remained 'zero-day' once the vendor found out about it. Fixing a zero-day vulnerability sounds like an oxymoron, but if you're correct then I guess not.
and with this...
Bye bye, Adobe. Uninstalled.
Buggy old software with numerous security breaches (and not the first Adobe breach lately.)
Bye bye, Adobe. Uninstalled.
Buggy old software with numerous security breaches (and not the first Adobe breach lately.)
Because you're not actually downloading that version of a Flash Player installer. It's Adobe, so you're downloading a Flash Player installer downloader, which then downloads the latest version from Adobe's site and launches that installer. I think this is actually a pretty recent change, but as an SCCM admin, I deal with it a lot more at work (where we have the enterprise installers, which are "real" installers) than at home, so I might just have a skewed memory.
In any case, consider yourself lucky that it's just an installer downloader and not an Download Helper Updater update you have to run so you can update Download Helper, thus enabling you to download the plugin.
(Or whatever crazy shenanigans Adobe is known for.)PS - Mine was called AdobeFlashPlayerInstaller_12_ltrosxd_aaa_aih.dmg.
Don't mind the update, software patches are expected.
What I do mind however is that stupid box in the Flash settings that says "Allow Adobe to install updates". MAKE THAT FREAKING WORK SO I DON'T HAVE TO BE BOTHERED EVERY 2.3 DAYS ABOUT ANOTHER UPDATE!!
Thank you.
What I do mind however is that stupid box in the Flash settings that says "Allow Adobe to install updates". MAKE THAT FREAKING WORK SO I DON'T HAVE TO BE BOTHERED EVERY 2.3 DAYS ABOUT ANOTHER UPDATE!!
Thank you.
If you give it time it'll work, it just usually doesn't happen the instance an update is released, could be hours or a day or two until it does its thing, as is often the case with automatic update type of things for majority of software.
Careful. Adobe is pushing new DRM that is supposed to kill older documents. At some point they may do a stealth push of a 'security update' for there various software that kills the older documents. See:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/0...eave-existing-users-out-in-the-cold-come-july
Surf the web safely:
Turn off plugins in general.
Turn off or uninstall Adobe plugins specifically.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/0...eave-existing-users-out-in-the-cold-come-july
Surf the web safely:
Turn off plugins in general.
Turn off or uninstall Adobe plugins specifically.
Because you're not actually downloading that version of a Flash Player installer. It's Adobe, so you're downloading a Flash Player installer downloader, which then downloads the latest version from Adobe's site and launches that installer. I think this is actually a pretty recent change, but as an SCCM admin, I deal with it a lot more at work (where we have the enterprise installers, which are "real" installers) than at home, so I might just have a skewed memory.
In any case, consider yourself lucky that it's just an installer downloader and not an Download Helper Updater update you have to run so you can update Download Helper, thus enabling you to download the plugin.
