DonsDeals Blog: Virus Malware info - Adobe Flash Zero-Day Exploit Used in Malvertisement Adds - Flash Player faces its third zero-day flaw in a month, updates coming 02-03-15

More Vulnerabilities, found int Adobe Flash. Zero-Day Exploits Used in Malvertisement Adds. Flash Player faces its third zero-day flaw in a month, updates coming 02-03-15. These effect Windows, Mac and Linux. I'm thinking... Probably Phone OS's too...

The Screen Shots, above. Will take you through, some of the Settings I did on my System. Maybe, it will help you find them in your System too. And give you some ideas, on how to set up your Adobe Flash, for better Security... If I missed something, let me know, in the comments...

So, after I read through the info I found (links below). I opened up the Adobe Control App, in my Fedora Linux System (my daily use system). And checked to make sure I have the latest version of Flash available on this machine. Flash is no longer putting out anything, except "Security Updates" for Linux OS's. And I knew, that I had updated Flash, week. But, I wanted to make sure, that I had what ever updates. Adobe has put out, right now. I'll put some screen shots, of the App above and info. It should be pretty much the same in Windows, too. I am up to date, now. And I set Adobe Flash, to Ask, before downloading anything to my System. I also run AdBlock Plus in Firefox and Chrome. So, that should help, by Blocking most of the Adds that could be infected. And I have Firefox and Chrome, set to Ask, before running Flash. There is a New Open Source Flash Player for Linux, called Lightspark. It is supposed to work with the Newer Flash. Lightspark is an LGPLv3 licensed Flash player and browser plugin written in C++/C that runs on Linux. It aims to support Adobe's newer Flash formats and AVM2 virtual machine. I have it installed on my System. But, It may not be in use. Unless I uninstall, Adobe Flash. I believe, that Adobe, is the first App, that Firefox goes to, when it sees a Flash File. I may just try uninstalling Adobe Flash, soon. Since it's security, just keeps on getting worse and worse. Not to mention, how Adobe Flash constantly Slows Down my System, to a crawl. When it runs many of the Flash Files on the Internet. Everything from Adds to Videos, do this... And there is also, Gnash. Which only works with older Flash files. Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports most SWF v7 features and some SWF v8 and v9. So, Gnash wont play any new Flash Videos. It has stayed behind, Adobe Flash Releases, eve since I found it, in 2005 or 2006. It can be useful for playing Flash Files, Games, that you have on your System. So, I keep it installed, but don't really use it, much, these days...

Don

Adobe FAIL: Yet another Flash 0-day vuln 'sploited in wild | Computerworld

This is the first Article, that I read today on this issue. Notice, in the ScreenShot, below. The Irony of their Web Site Wanting to Run Adobe Flash, on my System!:)

Don