Adobe Flash Flaw Gets More Dangerous

[ViZioN]

It's an abuse of position because they use their own update service to push out updates for Internet Explorer? Come on. Other applications don't lose out because of this. On start-up Firefox checks for updates and prompts the user to install them. Other browsers can do exactly the same (don't know if they do). Every third party product doesn't have to be integrated into Windows Update in order to be kept up to date.

[Ace]

Windows needs something like the Sparkle framework on Mac OS X. It makes updating software really easy, even for complete novices. IMO, this would completely solve the problem with updating third-party applications like Adobe Flash Player & Adobe Reader.

[cork1958]

Sounds like Adobe needs to get on the ball. Why on earth would they have Adobe Updater and it doesn't update one of their most commonly used products? I fail to see how this is anyone else's issue but the vendor of the Flash plugin.

No doubt.

There stuff is getting ridiculous!

Usually have flash blocker enabled anyway.

[Ji@nBing]

Adobe needs to just stick to Photoshop and nothing else. Seriously. They've shown for a number of years now that they don't have what it takes to make reasonably secure products. It's just about every other week that there is a new critical Flash or Acrobat vulnerability. OS vendors (MS, Apple, and Linux) need to tell them they are no longer allowed to make products for their OS's until they get their act together.

[Buio]

All applications that are plug-ins in a browser or work with a browser that access the net in some way need to check for updates daily.

The problem with Flash is that is per default only checks for updates once every 30 day! And the setting to change that is extremely complicated to go to and change for a standard user. Even so, the minimum is 7 days which still is to long. But I guess Adobe don't want to pay for the traffic it would create (the cheap *******).

Personally I think Flash sucks, but that is just my opinion. If a site is Flash-only, I almost always close the tab and never go there again. I'm very reluctant to sites that use heavy Flash, I think the only one I whitelisted in NoScript is nhl.com.

Except from the issues with heavy flash being slow and irritating, you can't rightclick and open a Flash link i a new tab. If you click a flashlink and then back, the Flash app is not where you where (it resets, like f.e. example nhl.com). If a site uses Flash it very often blocks so I cant use Ctrl+T to open a new tab.

[Ace]

It would be great if all your browsers and plug-ins were virtualized a la VMware's ThinApp / Microsoft's App-V. This way they would have zero or extremely limited access to the host system.

[plasmarox]

It would be great if all your browsers and plug-ins were virtualized a la VMware's ThinApp / Microsoft's App-V. This way they would have zero or extremely limited access to the host system.

maybe all programs should be sandboxed like this? :)

EDIT:

Looked at dates, sorry guise.