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NEW Adobe Flash Zero-day Vulnerability / Exploit - Uninstall Flash Today From All Computers
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| Oct 15, 2015
| (vanity, multiple sources)
Posted on 10/15/2015 11:34:56 AM PDT by dayglored
Yet another bad new Zero-Day (already exploited) Adobe Flash vulnerability.
Time to uninstall Flash from all your computers and keep it off for good!
To remove Flash from Windows:
- Close your browser
- In Control Panel -> Programs and Features, remove/uninstall all Adobe Flash or Shockwave items.
- Restart your browser
- Go to Add-ons/Plugins and confirm there are no Shockwave or Flash plugins.
To remove Flash from OS X (10.6 and later):
- Download and run this Flash uninstaller: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/support/uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg
To remove Flash from Linux:
- Close your browser
- Use "apt-get remove", "yum erase", or find the flashplayer .so (e.g. in /usr/lib[64]/mozilla/plugins or ~/.mozilla/plugins) and remove it.
- Restart your browser
- Go to Add-ons/Plugins and confirm there are no Shockwave or Flash plugins.
Note that Google Chrome has its own integrated Flash plugin that CANNOT be removed; it can only be disabled. Ref.:
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: adobe; applepinglist; computers; computing; flash; vulnerability; windowspinglist; zeroday
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To: dayglored
To: dayglored
My question - (beyond why we even continue to see such heavy use of Flash for anything any more) - how come Flash is apparently such an easy vector for malware? Is the Adobe team that inept? I don’t get it...
Either way, it sure makes Steve Jobs’ pontification against Flash several years ago look like genius.
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posted on
10/16/2015 8:29:19 AM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
To: dayglored
So I removed adobe flash yesterday from all my browsers, today I find when trying to tune into Rush, virtually every live streaming radio requires adobe flash.
Does anyone know if there is an alternative that will work for live streaming radio.
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posted on
10/16/2015 9:16:50 AM PDT
by
PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
To: Jim 0216
I use it for my online games. I can’t give it up!!!! Oh, my.
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