OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/22204/10_Million_Update_to_Secure_Flash_Version_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 19 May 2013 01:32:00 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?385370 http://www.osnews.com/thread?385370 Don't you love when an open source project do the job of a billionary company for free?

I spect a generous donation to the Mozilla project from you Adobe. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments Adobe Updater http://www.osnews.com/thread?385374 http://www.osnews.com/thread?385374 Perhaps this will finally cause Adobe to realize how terrible their updater really is and fix it. I doubt it, though...

Personally, I think the best (third party) updaters I've seen are Google's silent one (as much as I dislike resident programs, Google did a pretty good job with it) and I also like the Firefox approach, where it downloads updates without asking and subsequently installs them automatically on the next program restart. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FreakyT) Comments WARNING: Offensive post http://www.osnews.com/thread?385375 http://www.osnews.com/thread?385375 Well, if users are that dumb, they deserve to receive and execute all kinds of evil viruses. And I'll rejoice!

(Well, I did post a warning) Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments RE: WARNING: Offensive post http://www.osnews.com/thread?385378 http://www.osnews.com/thread?385378 The last thing a user needs to be productive is to have to worry about security updates of every software he owns, that's why auto-updaters come handy. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments RE[2]: WARNING: Offensive post http://www.osnews.com/thread?385380 http://www.osnews.com/thread?385380 I think the OP was talking about the fact that clicking on a link on your home page instructing you to download an executable is somewhat dumb.

I mean, what if a site managed to set firefox's home page in disguise? But, to be honest, I think it would be unlikely, though I never actually thought about it until now.

So, the question I believe we should be asking is: How hard would it be to, from a web site (anything more and the attacker wouldn't really need to have you clicking the link, right?), to change a user's home page on Firefox?

10 million infected people from downloading what appears to be a mozilla recommendation is a dreadful scenario. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AlexandreAM) Comments RE: ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?385392 http://www.osnews.com/thread?385392 my god ... lol @ billionaires .......... do you really think it is in their best interest to be dishonest. Businesspeopel do not get wealthy by being dishonest, they get wealthy by producing a product that people need, trust, and understand, it is in the best interest of the business owner to produce the best product possible.... my god ....... you people are really ignorant thinking that businesses are out to get you. The capitalist makes he world go round. Mutual profit for you and the business at hand. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (re_re) Comments Comment by license_2_blather http://www.osnews.com/thread?385406 http://www.osnews.com/thread?385406 I somewhat sympathize with the "dumb user" comment, but in reality what "they" do affects all of us, directly or indirectly. Aside from that, it's not all the users' fault. I had to disinfect my boss's PC because he contracted a Flash-exploit virus from visiting CNN.com ( a 3rd-party ad provider had not appropriately vetted its content). He was desperate for my help as it was 2 days before he had to file his taxes.

Flash is just evil. Along with the 'sploits is the CPU-sucking performance because Adobe hasn't bothered to make it use the video decoding capabilities of modern GPUs. Yet I'm forced to use it because some vendor support sites insist on it. Freaking ridiculous. I hope HTML5 can displace the abomination that is Flash, but I'm not holding my breath.

@re_re: some business people do get wealthy by being dishonest. A few even get away with it. But that's no reason to throw the capitalist baby out with the bathwater. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (license_2_blather) Comments RE[2]: ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?385416 http://www.osnews.com/thread?385416 And where did the OP say anything about dishonesty? And by the way, your definition about how the business world works might hold true for your country (Utopia, perhaps?) but there are many, many companies that make quite some money by screwing consumers and other companies without offering anything valuable; the patent trolls being a prime example. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (merkoth) Comments Finally! http://www.osnews.com/thread?385427 http://www.osnews.com/thread?385427 I've been waiting for this sort of fix for a LONG time. I have countless flash installers on my "Downloads" folder and it's starting to irritate me aswell, though when I had linux (Ubuntu 9.04) installed, my Firefox managed to fetch the flashplugins without actually visiting Abobe's homepage. I just had to agree to the licenceagreement and the browser got the plugin automatically. I'm not sure about updating the plugin though.

I am constantly trying out new operatingsystems and I have to install these flashplugins many times in a month, so it would be great to have this feature, regardless of the OS.Edited 2009-09-22 07:26 UTC Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (EmperoR) Comments RE: WARNING: Offensive post http://www.osnews.com/thread?385433 http://www.osnews.com/thread?385433
Well, if users are that dumb, they deserve to receive and execute all kinds of evil viruses. And I'll rejoice!

(Well, I did post a warning)


It's in noone's interest that every user you consider dumb has any kind of virus! Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Brunis) Comments Comment by frood http://www.osnews.com/thread?385442 http://www.osnews.com/thread?385442 I remember the days when, if flash was not detected, the mozilla plugins dialog box would prompt you to install it and then download and install it for you. Nowadays it just takes you to the "manual install" page on adobe's website. What happened? Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (frood) Comments RE[2]: WARNING: Offensive post http://www.osnews.com/thread?385507 http://www.osnews.com/thread?385507
The last thing a user needs to be productive is to have to worry about security updates of every software he owns, that's why auto-updaters come handy.


A centralised update infrastructure is much nicer than a bunch of independent, always running, auto-updaters. Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (phoenix) Comments RE[3]: WARNING: Offensive post http://www.osnews.com/thread?385677 http://www.osnews.com/thread?385677 But it's not such a problem if yor trust is automated, and your system is bogged down by uncountable toolbars anyway.

C:\WINDOWS>portmaster -a
'portmaster' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

C:\WINDOWS>ups... Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (marafaka) Comments