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Answer» Legitimate Web sites hosting Adobe Flash Player content may be compromised to embed JavaScript that redirects users to a Chinese malware server, says Symantec. Affected versions of Adobe Flash Player include 9.0.124 .0 (latest version) and 9.0.115.0. Quote Symantec recommends that users use script-disabling plug-ins such as NoScript for Firefox to prevent embedded Flash scripts from being loaded. Link You beat me to posting this by 3 minutes I'm sure its probably because you were working on one of your other news links today. Symantec Backtracks on Adobe Flash Warning After warning on Tuesday that hackers were exploiting an unpatched bug in Adobe Systems' Flash Player software, Symantec has backtracked from this CLAIM, saying the flaw is "very similar" to another vulnerability that was patched LAST month. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146396/symantec_backtracks_on_adobe_flash_warning.htmlWow! That's something you don't see very OFTEN. A Linux platform is actually more vulnerable to something than Windows. From the PCWorld article: Quote However, the Linux version of Adobe's stand-alone Flash Player, version 9.0.124, is vulnerable to the attack. ... That means that Windows and Mac OS X users with the latest updates are not vulnerable,... Of course the article explains that they were all vulnerable and the developers just missed a spot while doing the fix, but it's still a collector's item.

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Legitimate Web sites hosting Adobe Flash Player content may be compromised to embed JavaScript that redirects users to a Chinese malware server, says Symantec. Affected versions of Adobe Flash Player include 9.0.124 .0 (latest version) and 9.0.115.0.

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Symantec recommends that users use script-disabling plug-ins such as NoScript for Firefox to prevent embedded Flash scripts from being loaded.

Link You beat me to posting this by 3 minutes I'm sure its probably because you were working on one of your other news links today. Symantec Backtracks on Adobe Flash Warning

After warning on Tuesday that hackers were exploiting an unpatched bug in Adobe Systems' Flash Player software, Symantec has backtracked from this CLAIM, saying the flaw is "very similar" to another vulnerability that was patched LAST month.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146396/symantec_backtracks_on_adobe_flash_warning.htmlWow! That's something you don't see very OFTEN. A Linux platform is actually more vulnerable to something than Windows.

From the PCWorld article: Quote

However, the Linux version of Adobe's stand-alone Flash Player, version 9.0.124, is vulnerable to the attack. ... That means that Windows and Mac OS X users with the latest updates are not vulnerable,...

Of course the article explains that they were all vulnerable and the developers just missed a spot while doing the fix, but it's still a collector's item.

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