Severe Trojan Warning From Adobe

[Rohne]

Adobe have laebelled this threat as critical, the trojan is a keylogger and uses a vulnerability in adobe programs. Go to Adobe and update your flash player pronto.

Announcement From www.Curse.com

Recently there were a number of websites compromised due to an Adobe flash player vulnerability. This vulnerability allowed the injection of flash scripts that download keyloggers onto unsuspecting visitors' computers, opening up the potential for the player to be hacked and lose their video game account.

Thursday Adobe released an update, and it's important for everyone who has Adobe flash player installed to download this patch. If you do not, your computer and video game accounts are at risk.

Find out about the update, or download it and start installing it as soon as you can. You can also use the auto update feature within the flash player if you desire updating through that method.

Please, do this as soon as you can. This vulnerability is very real, and there are people attempting to steal accounts this very moment. Any website you visit until you've updated may be a potential threat to your computer's security.

As an extra precaution, please make sure to run virus scans on your computers to ensure they're clean of threats. The known keylogger files circulating related to this are:

• a.exe
• b.exe
• c.exe
• 6to4ex.dll

There may be variations of these files we don't know about yet, so please if you detect anything else let us know.

Edit: the installation for Windows Explorer is different to firefox/opera/safari - instructions are available on the download page.

[Mem]

Even if patched you should also probably block flash unless you want the item and trust the source if you dont already

Opera - http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9
Firefox - http://adblockplus.org/en/
Chrome - http://chromespot.com/forum/chrome-p...or-chrome.html
IE -activex+flash=unnacceptable risk imo

June 24, 2009
Adobe says use a Flash blocker to reduce Flash induced-crashes

Originally Posted by http://aulia.posterous.com/adobe-says-use-a-flash-blocker-to-reduce-flas

Use a flash blocker!

Questioned about Flash's torrid performance on platforms other than Windows, an Adobe employee responded to Adobe's favorite cheerleader John Welch by saying that he should use a flash blocker because it will… get this… SLOW DOWN THE CRASH CYCLE. Adobe seem to refuse to even address the fact that they need to fix the bloody thing.

Adobe also won't comment on his question regarding HTML 5, something that is encroaching on the field once held by Flash and now facing competition also from Microsoft's Silverlight. Nevermind the fact that HTML 5 may just kill both Flash and Silverlight, because HTML 5 requires no plugin, just a modern browser such as Opera, Firefox, Safari or Mobile Safari that already supports the new standard.

Mobile Gmail, Mobile Flickr and Glyphboard already employ HTML 5 to store data and in the case of Mobile Flickr, use location services.