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Adobe Releases Flash Player Update for 'Critical' Security Vulnerability on Mac

I'm starting to think that there's no actually vulnerable attacks coming from outside. Maybe Adobe is a fear mongerer
company to force people to update....for advertising purpose.
"thanks for updating..by the way..you might be interested in these products..."
 
pat500000 said:
I'm starting to think that there's no actually vulnerable attacks coming from outside. Maybe Adobe is a fear mongerer
company to force people to update....
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Yeah, because they make money or anything else beneficial to hem off of something like that...
pat500000 said:
I'm starting to think that there's no actually vulnerable attacks coming from outside. Maybe Adobe is a fear mongerer
company to force people to update....for advertising purpose.
"thanks for updating..by the way..you might be interested in these products..."
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I see the post was later edited to add more to it. Well, I can't say I've seen advertisements or calls to install something else as part of Flash updates.
 
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Ugh. Flash. Reminiscent of those vainglorious ostentatious web sites that occupied half your life in the loading stage.
 
jettredmont said:
You do realize you have it on your system, just integrated in the Chrome browser rather than as a separate plugin, right?
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Flash is sandboxed within Chrome. That's not the same thing as downloading Flash from Adobe and installing it. This way, it's much more secure and is updated by Google so you always have the latest version. Also, using an extension, like Flashcontrol includes greater security as you only run what you want to click on, and again, that's videos 99.999999999999999999% of the time.

I have it disabled mostly in Chrome, but will enable it when I need it.
 
pat500000 said:
I'm starting to think that there's no actually vulnerable attacks coming from outside. Maybe Adobe is a fear mongerer
company to force people to update....for advertising purpose.
"thanks for updating..by the way..you might be interested in these products..."
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Do you seriously think this? If so, there is medication that can help you out.
 
nt5672 said:
Using bad technology is just like voting for the wrong candidate. As long as there are users Flash will never go away. IMO there is never a reason to to use flash. Might you miss a video? Sure! But in the overall scheme of things is missing a video really all that important? Nope, or at least it should not be!
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I am not surprised that there are people so ideological about their allegiances that they'd wait 13 years for another season of their favorite show, and then when a hundred miracles happen and it actually gets made, they refuse to watch it because it's not in their preferred choice of codec.
 
shareef777 said:
He's referring to the end user side. We use certain sites that run flash, and there's no two ways about it. People act like the only thing that runs flash are online video and game sites. Unfortunately, there are A LOT of other sites that run flash that are important or even critical to our day to day lives.
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There's only 1 major reason these site owners haven't transitioned to HTML5. Budget. Try to find user cases where - eventually - it's not about budget.
 
Bloomberg.com videos don't seem to work in Safari if I don't install Flash. Would've uninstalled years ago if I could.
 
Cuban Missles said:
Wait, I thought Flash was dead. Why does anyone still have it installed.

Better option is to UNINSTALL
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Thanks for this! I've been meaning to uninstall Flash forever. Finally got around to doing it with the instructions.One question. Where do I find the directories in this instruction:
  1. "Delete the following directories:
    • <home directory>/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\ Player
    • <home directory>/Library/Caches/Adobe/Flash\ Player"
 
Apple releases XXX Update for 'Critical' Security Vulnerability on Mac: Good!
Adobe releases XXX Update for 'Critical' Security Vulnerability on Mac: Boo!

It's the Web, which is dead. And Flash is the last surviving warrior.

After 10 years of HTML5 being developed, this is what we got:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTML5_and_Flash

No wonder Flash still has 95% Installment base. Because HTML5 sucks.
 
shareef777 said:
I'd like to think that a multi-billion dollar company like VMware could afford to get a team to create a HTML based web console.
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I think you've just mentioned the only Flash based, enterprise app which is useable - better - VMWare has executed a fantastic project here. The freshly released vSpere V6 web client is even better than good. However I don't believe there is not a HTML5 team working somewhere at the VMWare backstage to eventually do the big switch. With this giant new V6 release just hitting the shelves I don't expect too much HTML5 love at the VMWorld in August, but who knows on V8 ?
 
Sad to see how Flash ended up after being a main element of the internet. Yes its horrendous now.
I guess it should continue to exist in one way or form just to view the old internet archives/websites .

It really gave the internet that extra push...web apps!
 
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shareef777 said:
To the already posted and the numerous up coming posts, we get it. You've moved on from flash. Good for you, continue to give yourselves a pat on the back EVERY time a patch is released. Some of us have jobs that require the use of web based apps that run on flash. Case in point: VMware. Number one virtualization platform in the enterprise. They require a web based management console, and guess what it runs on. Sure, they plan on moving to HTML one day, but until that happens I'm glad these posts exist to help keep people aware of the security risks out there.
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Why not use Chrome when you use the web based management console?
 
vatter69 said:
Really curious is there ANY real reason to still have this on your Computer? I uninstalled this like 5 years ago. Back then it was hard because many sites still used this to deliver videos (youtube,facebook,macrumors!) etc. But today?
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Other sites, like every news site, still use it for videos. Google Calendar needs it for something, IDK what. I don't understand how they managed to make Flash so insecure. It sucks, but things use it.
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jettredmont said:
Again, this is foolhardy. Chrome includes the Flash plugin. The only difference between this and Safari with the plugin is that you are dependent on the timeliness of Chrome updates to get Flash updates a few days after they happen, and that the plugin update happens as a part of the browser update process.
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Are you sure about this? The reason I don't use Chrome for Flash is its Flash player is horrendously slow. There was a video site I used to watch The Simpsons on, and it lagged in Chrome but was fine in any other browser with the Flash plugin. Could've been some other reason, of course.
 
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a0me said:
Why not use Chrome when you use the web based management console?
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I prefer the integration of Safari between my various OS X and iOS devices. It makes things easier to have a single pain of glass that manages all my bookmarks. Besides. Flash for Chrome would also be susceptible to these security issues so not sure what difference it makes.
 
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