Flash zero-day flaw under attack to spread ad malware...

lehnerus2000 said:

Phone Man said:

Adobe has fixed the exploit in 16.0.0.287 and new version to be release real soon.

Since we are talking about Adobe, have they fixed the exploits in 16.0.0.296?

What exploits are in 16.0.0.296?

Jim

lehnerus2000 said:

Phone Man said:

lehnerus2000 said:

Phone Man said:

Adobe has fixed the exploit in 16.0.0.287 and new version to be release real soon.

Since we are talking about Adobe, have they fixed the exploits in 16.0.0.296?

What exploits are in 16.0.0.296?

I must have forgot to add the appropriate Smiley.

It's Adobe.
The next version is going to be just like all of the previous versions (e.g. "Swiss Cheese").

I had two thoughts on your comment:

1) you were confused about the exploits
2) you were making a statement about Adobe.

Seems #2 applies.

Jim

Still can't get anywhere at the Adobe site, and the beta-flash from Adobe Labs isn't cuttin it either.

16.0.0.296 is now available at Adobe Flash Player Distribution | Adobe

Jim

Phone Man said:

16.0.0.296 is now available at Adobe Flash Player Distribution | Adobe

Jim

Thanks for that Jim! :)

Is the Shockwave player also affected?

jimbo45 said:

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I'm still amazed at how many times I get pestered in a computer retail store to buy an add on "AV" package if I'm say getting a laptop or whatever. The sales staff simply can't believe when I say - don't bother selling me Norton or whatever - Windows has a perfectly good built in system already.

Cheers
jimbo

It does, it's called Defender, formerly known as Microsoft Security Essentials. It's all you need and is the least invasive with the smallest resource footprint. Basically, decent AV protection is for past infections and previous worms and other problems...although I do agree that a lot of ancient pests won't run at all in Win8/10. But more than that, malware doesn't run in an unpatched security hole--malware is straight-forward programs that do nasty things to an OS. Can't patch against that, pretty much. People run all kinds of crap they get from the Internet.

Hopefully, you don't run with Defender disabled. Couldn't agree more about Norton's, though. People should avoid that and McAfee's...Defender's caught everything I've encountered on the 'net--which isn't much. Still, it's been frequent enough (1-2 incidences every few years) that I know it's actually there and working... But I'm a lot pickier about where I go on the Internet and what I download and run than many people I know. I've seen some everyday systems that I am surprised will even boot, clogged as they are with malware and junk software--these folks need Defender, no doubt about it.