Adobe Confirms Major New Flash Vulnerability Affecting All Versions; Only Uninstall Protects Users

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I don't mind Flash. There are vulnerabilities in every piece of software, but Flash has been getting the brunt of it recently because there is a much less developed alternative. If you are scared of being targeted, get rid of it. However, I've had it, and still use it daily, and never had an issue. The chance of you being targeted and attacked is still much too low for me to care.

actually flash has a track record of horrible security...

here's a list Adobe Flash Player : List of security vulnerabilities

577 total vulnerabilities

compare that to say silverlight at 22

Microsoft Silverlight : List of security vulnerabilities

oh and in case you were wondering it was AFTER adobe took over that flash got so bad

Macromedia flash had 43. total Macromedia Flash Player : CVE security vulnerabilities, versions and detailed reports

part of it is the interactive nature of the program and another part is poor development and not realizing that certain things can open security holes.

so yes, flash needs to be retired, but I'll say again there needs to be a way to preserve the plethora of flash content on the web... ads and non interactive flash is easy with google swiffy however the nature of flash games prevents it from working as well on them... I'm sure eventually someone will figure out a way to convert old flash games to html5 without breaking them.

 

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It's not even just the security issues. It's been plagued by crashes from the outset, and it's never really gotten that much better. I just disabled flash on Firefox and installed Flash Control as well so that only HTML5 can be used by sites. Problem solved.