Almost 45% of YOU are vulnerable to Flash exploits!

[Chiefcrowe]

Almost 45% of YOU are vulnerable to Flash exploits!

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/almost-45-of-you-are-vulnerable-to-flash-exploits/11911

 

[Lemon law]

If nothing else, running secunia PSI, or doing an on line scan at the secunia website will show which programs are our dated and have security holes.

Sadly new versions of flashplayers seem to have very limited shelf life, get the latest version and it will be outdated in two weeks or a month.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I know that the activeX version prompts for updates but I hope that soon in the future that the version for Firefox has some kind of auto update/prompting mechanism put into it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I know that the activeX version prompts for updates but I hope that soon in the future that the version for Firefox has some kind of auto update/prompting mechanism put into it.

Are you suggesting that the flash updater that shows up upon boot, and tells you that there is an updated version of flash player, only updates the ActiveX version, and not the plugin? I guess I had thought that the flash updater updated both of them.

 

[Scouzer]

I like how Chrome babysits me. No bad flash for Chrome users.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Yes, as far as I know that is the case. I will test it out soon and see what happens during the next release - perhaps they changed it so it updates both. Hope so!!

Are you suggesting that the flash updater that shows up upon boot, and tells you that there is an updated version of flash player, only updates the ActiveX version, and not the plugin? I guess I had thought that the flash updater updated both of them.