MALWARE ALERT: 'FLASH PLAYER'

[Sciuriware]

Hi all,
I'm not the first to find out, but this malware is so mean it could even waste your Mac.
Several websites suddenly tell you that your ADOBE Flash Player is obsolete
and 'offer' a new one. DO NOT ACCEPT IT!
The trick is that you must give your administrator password somewhere to install it.

To avoid any problems: go to System Preferences, click the Flash Player icon below,
choose the updates tab, check "Allow Adobe ..." (that's the real one), and
to be sure, click "Check Now" to convince yourself that updates are unnecessary.

Have a safe 2017.
;JOOP!

 

[deany]

I have https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac/ in my dock
I run it every few weeks only takes well under a minute to scan.
Highly recommended plus its FREE.

 

[Bending Pixels]

Were you on a naughty site? That's where most of that stuff comes from...so I've heard

 

[Sciuriware]

... and of course you want to have the URL because you want to go there too.
Well, it's 2016 and nowadays there are more 'naughty' sites than 'decent(?)' sites.
Besides, lately most people here were infected from a local weather site.
So that's my definition of naughty: what you think you should trust.

And about this site ....... aaargh!
;JOOP!

 

[MSastre]

When you want to update Flash Player, do a separate log in to Adobe.com and download from there. That way you know it is legit.

 

[Sciuriware]

I still think it's safer to let Flash Player do the updating itself as described.
So you do not have to login somewhere or do clumsy things.
Keep all risks to a minimum.

;JOOP!

 

[Partron22]

I update from the Flash player System Pref pane.
I suppose I could let it auto update, but don't really trust Adobe since ATM days.

 

[campyguy]

I just use Chrome with its sandboxed Flash Player. QED, over and out…

 

[lederermc]

I removed flash from my mac's Most sites work okay by using html5 instead of flash. A couple of times a month I will transfer the render to chrome (Menu: Develop/Open Page with ...) that has flash built-it. It's really not a problem living with Flash.

 

[jk73]

Steve Jobs was never more right than he was about Flash. I (finally) deleted Flash a year ago and haven't missed it one bit.

 

[Tech198]

Were you on a naughty site? That's where most of that stuff comes from...so I've heard

...almost as bad being on the naughty list

or bookmark this link : http://www.adobe.com/

and click 'Menu" "Adobe Flash player"

Steve Jobs was never more right than he was about Flash. I (finally) deleted Flash a year ago and haven't missed it one bit.

Ya, but even its not a totally trapeze act, Apple would still do it for battery life only. Almost like, its their 'golden rule'