Adobe has released an out-of-schedule upgrade for its Flash Player software that tackles two serious vulnerabilities. The cross-platform update is suitable for users of Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris. Android punters also need to patch their smartphones to guard against possible attack. The two flaws involve a memory …

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Tuesday 6th March 2012 13:44 GMT Anonymous Coward

Writing This Correctly

"Vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash, Acrobat and Java have been the worst internet security risks for at least four years now".

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Tuesday 6th March 2012 15:43 GMT s. pam

s/at least four years now/forever/

Flash is the Ebola virus on a hard disk and I rate it no higher than Solaris, another Ebola Virus on a hard disk.

Get a Flash blocker and make Satan, ahem, Adobe piss off your machine forever!

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1. Tuesday 6th March 2012 17:18 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: s/at least four years now/forever/
  
  Why Solaris ??
  
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2. Tuesday 6th March 2012 21:05 GMT An(other) Droid
  
  Re: s/at least four years now/forever/
  
  And what 'bout the Solaris blocker?
  
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Tuesday 6th March 2012 16:24 GMT Anonymous Coward

Fools

They can't even get the downloads working properly. Just went to the Flash Player Distribution download page. It shows the version available as 11.1.102.63, but when you download the files they are all still the .62 version.

Incompetence doesn't even begin to describe this group.

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1. Tuesday 6th March 2012 18:35 GMT asdf
  
  Re: Fools
  
  You mean their decision to be one of the first to outsource to India with their 10 for $1 workers has lead to a decrease in quality? All lies.
  
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  1. Wednesday 7th March 2012 10:28 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Re: Fools
    
    It can't be related to India and you are obviously a politically incorrect, racist,<insert some more PC names here> man. You should be reported to the PC police for reeducation.
    
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