[Swordmaker]

As usual, this is a Trojan horse application which you can only inflict on yourself by downloading and installing it and running it from an untrusted source. JUST SAY NO TO ADOBE FLASH!

If you MUST have Adobe Flash, only download it, or its updates from the official Adobe website, never from an email or a screen pop-up alert telling you that you need to do an update, as all of these are bogus.

[Swordmaker]

Another Mac Malware is added to the approximately 150 total Apple Mac Malware list . . . And of course this is another Trojan Horse, which means you can only inflict it on yourself by downloading it, installing it, and running it for the first time yourself. AGAIN, it is masquerading as an Adobe Flash Player installer/updater so the best way to avoid being infected by this malware is to JUST SAY NO TO ADOBE FLASH PLAYER! —PING!

JUST SAY NO TO ADOBE FLASH!
BE SAFE APPLE PING!

If you want on or off the Apple/Mac/iOS Ping List, Freepmail me.

[House Atreides]

Steve Jobs was certainly correct in his recognition that Adobe Flash was a security nightmare. He saved many a Apple customer from their own personal cyber nightmare.

[dfwgator]

The new malware was first observed linked from a site purporting to share digital copies of new comic books for free—one of many shady sites that flagrantly violates U.S. copyright laws.

Hmmm, makes you wonder who is putting them there?

[dfwgator]

VirtualBox is your friend. If you are doing anything sensitive, always do it from a Virtual Machine.

[Trump.Deplorable]

People still use flash? Why?

Must be a Mac thing, always stuck in the past, like their hardware options and prices

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

If at least, you don’t have a Password manager by now you are the problem, just as much as the hackers.

[MarineBrat]

Any new machine I setup gets flash and java removed immediately.

[dhs12345]

Unrelated we are enjoying our Apple TV. It is reasonably priced and integrates all of third party applications like Sling, Netflix, etc. Makes steaming a lot easier.

Very nicely designed.

We picked up a second box.

[BunnySlippers]

I’m pretty sure I have it floating around on my computer... I have a persistent Adobe Installer for sometime that I refuse to install.

[rlmorel]

Ah. So it presents from a non-official site masquerading as Adobe, or someone who looks for a download site and just clicks on one?

[palmer]

Someone still uses flash?

[Albion Wilde]

I got malware from a so-called Flash installer, but thanks to FR, a freeper directed me to MalwareBytes, and it seems to have "quarantined" the malware.

[Conservative4Life]

bump