Go to the “Tools” menu (gear icon in the upper right corner) and select “Manage Add-Ins.” Right-click on “Shockwave Flash Object” and disable it.
At least, that is how it works on my version of IE.
So what happens when I right click on Shockwave Flash Object? What will I not be able to access on the computer? I have Windows 7 Ultimate. (this stuff is Greek to me. Sigh)
I go hit by some type of infection due to a flash player exploit and I think it made my hard drive unbootable. I ended up putting in a new hard drive and after getting what I needed off the old one just reformatted it which seemed to kill the infection. I needed to clean up my computer anyway and everything is running much faster than it used to. I just put the reformatted hard drive into another computer after checking the drive for viruses and bad sectors (it found none). I guess it’s fixed.
If you see any messages that pop up that says you need to upgrade your flash player program DON’T do it. The hackers made it look like the link went to www.adobe.com. I think they were just able to make the browser show a false address.
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