Filed under: Security, Windows, Adobe, Microsoft
NewsFLASH - Your PC may be vulnerable
by Drew Olanoff May 28th 2008
It has come to our attention that there's an Adobe Flash player vulnerability in the wild that may affect your PC.Simply by visiting a naughty website, the unsuspecting web visitor will be attacked with a piece of code that redirects you to an evil .SWF file that can then execute nasty code on their PC.
Adobe has blogged about the issue, but hasn't issued any releases, or patches to take care of the problem as of yet. Security firm Symantec says that 20,000 web pages may be affected by this style of attack.
Since there's no real way around getting hit with this one, you can either disable your flash player altogether, or get the No-Script add-on for your Firefox browser.
[via webmonkey]
UPDATE: Adobe has issued a fix, click here to update. Read here for more info.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Iain said 6:07PM on 5-28-2008
You can use AdBlock Plus to filter '.swf' files, then disable it on trusted pages.
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hermdog said 11:00PM on 5-28-2008
According to this article on cnet there is link to a fix.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9954408-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
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daniel free said 8:50AM on 5-29-2008
or alternately just not use acrobat, personaly i find the foxit reader nicer anyhow.
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James said 3:21PM on 5-29-2008
FlashBlock is one of my "must have" extensions for FF already -- thanks for another good reason to use it =-)
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