[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Every website I visited today, except Free Republic, produced an Adobe pop up asking if I wanted to install Adobe Flash. My work computer. It already has AF, as does the laptop I'm posting from now. Thankfully, I'm not being nagged to death on this machine.

Anybody else experiencing this?

I'm ready to call IT support in the morning to get this over with.

[Abigail Adams]

I just went to Adobe’s web site and updated my Flash version. Haven’t seen the annoying Firefox messages anymore.

[nascarnation]

I’ve had flash turned “off” for quite some time.
Very few sites really need it.
Youtube is one, unfortunately.

[ecomcon]

Fake Adobe update will encrypt your data files. Hostage for ransom.

[martin_fierro]

CNN: Late to the party, as usual.

[ClearCase_guy]

Firefox kerfuffle followed by Facebook Fatwa on Flash.

[lysie]

later

[mass55th]

I use Safari and Firefox. Yesterday when I attempted to play the Daily Jigsaw on Shockwave, Flash was blocked, but it gave me the option to unblock it, so I did.

From time to time I'll get pop-up windows telling me to install Flash when I visit a site, but close them out. Even when I get a notice that there's a new update to it, I close them out, then go to my Apple System Preferences, and click on Flash from there. I can check to see if any updates are available, and do them from there.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I experienced it, but I don't believe the file it wanted to install was official, so I didn't download it.

Be very careful about updating it.

[Rome2000]

Waiting for an expert to weigh in.

[Vermont Lt]

My Firefox has been locking up for the past two weeks. I have to keep my activity monitor up (Apple OS X) in order to crash flash and get things moving.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Interestingly, Google Chrome told me my flash was disabled today. Then it wouldn’t let me fix it. So I reinstalled Google Chrome and now it works fine and updated itself too. Not sure what that was about, possibly a new update from Adobe Flash that wanted to come through?

[Delta 21]

Stoopid, lazy , complacent me has it turned on on several sites and am uninstalling it and checking out to see if Ive screwed anything up yet.

[9YearLurker]

Flash should have been killed off a decade ago. No excuse for such problematic software.

[FunkyZero]

This isn’t the first time. It happened about a week ago too. I still avoid firefox after the whole thing with their CEO, but I’m forced to use it for a couple of management apps at work

[trebb]

Depends on the Flash settings - you can tell it to not automatically check/update so it needs to be done manually. If out of date and turned on, sites will prompt you to update if you want to view content properly.

Having it off by default is only good security - if one wants it on, then one should be aware of potential risks - much better than finding out the hard way that a bad site had automatic access.

[ShadowAce]

[dayglored]

Flash must die ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[PistolPaknMama]

Is Flash the culprit of the dreaded green screen when I play a video? I go through the steps of fixing this, then if I update anything at all on my computer, I go back to the dang green screen.