Flash zero day under attack

A zero day Flash vulnerability is being actively exploited by criminals using the popular Angler exploit kit. Adobe is investigating the report by respected French malware researcher Kafeine, who found the exploit kit circulating on cybercrime forums. The vulnerabilities affected Flash Player versions up to 15.0.0.223 and the …

[P. Lee]

Why is "forever" crossed out?

Would it be churlish to ask how Google has managed to make chrome safe but MS hasn't?

Yes, yes it would. Maybe Spartan will fix it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Why is "forever" crossed out?

"Google has managed to make Chrome safe but MS hasn't?"

Yes they have: "Punters on Windows 8.1 are safe"

[David Pollard]

Re: Why is "forever" crossed out?

Windows 8.1 is safe while earlier versions are not? Is this then the latest marketing ploy?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Why is "forever" crossed out?

Yes, newer versions are better than older versions is a marketing ploy.

[poopypants]

"obsensibly"? "immanent"?

Don't you guys spell check your articles?

[Phil O'Sophical]

Don't you guys spell check your articles?

Wouldn't have helped with "immanent", although it is certainly a most inappropriate adjectve to describe a security vulnerability.

[PeeKay]

Spellchecking seems to be the least of their problems...

'Angler remainz one of the most proflic exploit kits.'

Remainz?

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[Tromos]

Help! My machine's infected with Eboda...

...or maybe I've got that back to front.

[(AMPC) Anonymous and mostly paranoid coward]

Re: Help! My machine's infected with Eboda...

Interesting, for the last couple of days, my wife has had intermittent trouble playing random flash videos on FB (she clicks on a lot of videos). This is a new laptop running Windows 8.1 and Chrome, thank goodness. I smell badness.

Brrrrrr shiver.... now if only Flash could run out of battery power...... forever!

[The last doughnut]

People still use Flash player?

I've been using my newest xubuntu lappy for a while and it was only yesterday I realised it isn't even installed.

[Boothy]

PC Steam Client

The only reason I still have Flash instead, is for the PC Steam Client.

Come on Valve, please extract finger and replace your vid functionality with something better than Flash, i.e. HTML 5 video or something similar..

I'll then be able to remove flash completely (other than what comes built into my Browser anyway).

Does the Linux Steam client/OS also use Flash for the vids? If not, update the PC client to be the same as the Linus client!

[Anonymous Coward]

Do we need any more reasons

To remove Flash from our computers?

I think not!