JUST SAY NO TO FLASH!
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Posted on 06/18/2016 12:49:57 PM PDT by Utilizer
Adobe’s Flash plug-in has a big target painted on it. A recent leak shows there’s another Flash Player 0-day that allows attackers to compromise your computer, and that it’s been for sale for the last four years.
Flash is going away, and everyone should uninstall it at some point in the future. Here’s how to get rid of Flash, whether you’re using a browser’s built-in plug-in or a system-wide plug-in on Windows, Mac OS X, Chrome OS, or Linux. Can You Live Without Flash?
Flash is much less necessary than it’s ever been. Modern mobile platforms like Android and Apple’s iOS don’t offer Flash support at all, and that’s slowly pushing Flash out of the web.
You may find you don’t need Flash at all after you uninstall it. Even if you do need Flash right now, there’s a good chance you won’t need it at all in a few years.
If necessary, you can reinstall Flash later. If you need Flash for something, you may want to only install Flash for a specific browser and leave it disabled in your main browser. At the very least, you should enable click-to-run for Flash content so it doesn’t automatically run on web pages you visit.
(Excerpt) Read more at howtogeek.com ...
FYI...
Another article on this:
(Business Insider).
Note: on this system (Linux) the file is listed as “flashplugin-nonfree”. Your system/version might have a slightly different one.
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Just the incentive and right time for me to do this. I know that Steve Jobs had a real dislike for Flash going way back.
I know enough to be dangerous. . .went to the control panel and there all by itself was the F for flash player. I clicked it on and the permission to allow sites to put information in my computer was checked. Well, I unchecked it and then was warned I may lose valuable info. I don’t remember seeing it before but then I wasn’t looking for it. I am now going to check in the installed programs and see if it is there as well. I don’t even know what I am typing about but thought I would share.
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PS I just checked in the programs section and it looks like Adobe Flash Player 22 Active X was installed on my computer on June 16, 2016. I guess I better check my virus protector to see if I have it automatically set for upgrading programs. It is difficult to know what you need and don’t need.
Certainly worth looking into. Thanks!
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There was a story out that they had fixed Adobe and it was safe. This sounds like an old story to me. Why did he not say what to replace flash with?
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I just checked mine, I have these installed:
1. Adobe Air
2. Adobe Flash Playet ActiveX 21
3. Adobe Reader X MUI
Are these bad? What are they for? Should I uninstall them? What happens if I uninstall them?
Looking at the OSX list I did not see Yosemite listed. Stopped at Maverick.
Think I got it turned off.
Listed as Shockwave Flash. Disabled it.
Is that it?
BFL
Thanks to Utilizer for the ping!!
You ‘may lose valuable into’ in regards to any flash settings you have configured or files saved in a cache on the disk, but your system itself is in no danger, have no fear.
Anytime!
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