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I've personally always thought ActiveX and Macromedia Flash was a blight on the web, but .....
There is an important security hole discovered in all previous versions of Macromedia shockwave/flash plugins.
This is very serious, because:
1) Holiday greeting "cutezies" are usually flash based
2) Outlook opens flash files without giving you a second chance
so if someone Emails a trojaned flash file you're had as soon as you open it without clicking any attachments.
Macromedia has a Flash remover:
I'd advise removing it everywhere and letting the plugin re-download only after you've thought thru the need/usefulness of this stuff vs. the risk -- its probably a safe bet that this will not be the last problem found.
--wally.
PS
Note that there are seperate uninstallers for shockwave and flash. The default security settings in MSIE will automatically download and install a new flash plugin without ever mentioning it. While this should get you the new patched version, I consider this very bad behaviour!
There is an important security hole discovered in all previous versions of Macromedia shockwave/flash plugins.
This is very serious, because:
1) Holiday greeting "cutezies" are usually flash based
2) Outlook opens flash files without giving you a second chance
so if someone Emails a trojaned flash file you're had as soon as you open it without clicking any attachments.
Macromedia has a Flash remover:
I'd advise removing it everywhere and letting the plugin re-download only after you've thought thru the need/usefulness of this stuff vs. the risk -- its probably a safe bet that this will not be the last problem found.
--wally.
PS
Note that there are seperate uninstallers for shockwave and flash. The default security settings in MSIE will automatically download and install a new flash plugin without ever mentioning it. While this should get you the new patched version, I consider this very bad behaviour!