Yet another critical flash security vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and browsers

probe · 2009-07-25 18:05:55

Adobe Flash vulnerability - until it is patched Adobe suggests that you delete the authplay.dll file. If you have multiple products installed from Adobe, chances are you have multiple copies of this file on your system. http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/07/flash-security-vulnerability-exploited-in-pdfs.ars The US…

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Adobe Flash vulnerability - until it is patched Adobe suggests that you delete the authplay.dll file. If you have multiple products installed from Adobe, chances are you have multiple copies of this file on your system.

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/07/flash-security-vulnerability-exploited-in-pdfs.ars

The US Government says disable flash in your browser(s) while you are at it. If you are using Firefox with the NoScript addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722 active, they say you should be OK - providing you don't whitelist any websites exploiting the vulnerability.

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-204A.html

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