Adobe warns of zero-day Flash, Reader vulnerability; Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, Android affected

I did. They want it to affect everybody to prove their point. Besides it will be shored up by Nov 9th and if theres a virus Apple Store will help you.

o i’m sorry it effects iphones too because its a adobe reader problem as well. so now your arguement now has now basis.

so your saying they want to crash their own systems to prove a point? sound like an evil archvilian to me, not anything like steve jobs….. wait a minute!

iPhones don’t have Adobe Reader installed, they have a PDF reader written by Apple

i plused you cause i was wrong, feel free to minus my comment into oblivian… i should get an award tho. first person ever to admit their wrong on BGR

Lol. iPhones don’t use Adobe Reader!

thats implied in my post smart guy.

where and how? the only mention of apple is how you think they’re behind all this?

Big deal this is a blog dude. I wrote it very fast.

Use your real name in a blog = FAIL

QUOTE: Do you _really_ want a future where one company who doesn’t really care has control of the entire web’s security and future or maybe should we be all fighting for an open web instead?

You mean like Microsoft with their 90% plus market share domination on desktop OS?

Absolutely like that!! I’d be just as disappointed if we all relied on Microsoft’s IE6 ActiveX plugin formats. Or anything equivalent from Apple. Or Google’s new Chrome plugins, sorry, apps.

But the fact that it’s Adobe means it’s worse because they seem quite incompetent and too small a company to deal with the security issues properly. Microsoft have at least responded with some good security in Win7 and IE9

Come on now. You don’t buy that Microsoft Win7 and IE anything is more secure than their prior versions? If you watch the monthly Microsoft security patches (affectionately named “patch Tuesday” every second Tuesday of the month), there is no OS or IE version that is exempt from the blast of patches. Most range from XP all the way through 7 and Windows 2003 server through 2008. And Microsoft has had some of its biggest number of monthly patches ever just in the last 6 – 8 months. To say Microsoft has gotten more secure on ANYTHING Windows related is laughable.

@MicroNix
To say that IE and Windows aren’t secure OSes is quite a shallow point of view. Although I use Chrome because I prefer the minimalist approach, IE and Windows receive a bunch of updates due to the fact that Microsoft is always making an attempt to keep their products secure at all angles. I mean, I would rather have a company that pushes out dozens of updates on their product than one that doesn’t push out updates at all. Actually, that’s how antivirus, malware, and spyware programs work. If it isn’t kept updated, it can’t be kept safe.

I don’t think you deserve minuses either. I simply think you deserve a real brain.

Why would he hate that? Not only is Flash terribly slow and unreliable on Android (even moreso than on a desktop computer), but if you really did believe that Apple was behind all this, then wouldn’t Steve Jobs actually love the fact that Android’s Flash capabilities make it vulnerable to the security issue? It would give the iPhone that much more of an advantage… It’s clear that your logic is seriously flawed, and I pity anyone who ever employs you as a lawyer.

Sandy i mean

I’m seeing an invasion of the body snatchers scenario in the ranks of Google. Only difference from the movie is the body snatchers all look like mutant rat people (Eric Schmidt).

Eric told us goofans flash was perfect and I trust him and google 1000%. I’m convinced apple is behind this.

Oh my God….the mutant rat people got to you already didn’t they? The real Goofan is now a pile of goo fertilizing the flowerbeds outside the head Google offices.

Yes they did. I’m so confused. Nevertheless I trust in a higher power and that’s google and their tireless warrior Eric Schmidt!

As opposed to someone in a black turtleneck who uses the word magical in every sentence making him a fairy?

You want him bad don’t you?

His black turtleneck does remind me of a sith from Star Wars though

Hmm, that’s funny indeed since I’m able to watch flash video on an original Droid with no slowness in the video. The videos you ran across aren’t from Apple’s big bad testing lab where they proved that holding *any* smartphone with a death grip interferes with the signal were they?

Don’t be such a Fandroid and practice some free thought. If you must know the videos I ran across were from various users on youtube who ran android handsets as well as CNET and TechnoBuffalo hands on videos. Unlike others on here I don’t drink anyone’s cool-aid and reserve judgment on a certain subject until I’ve done the proper research and made my own decision based on what I’ve read and seen as well as asked others with first hand experience.

Flash as a technology mobile or otherwise is shit. Its especially bad on mobile technology and besides being buggy it kills your battery life, hogs processor power thereby slowing down your handset and is an all around shit user experience. I know enough people who have used it and say its shit. When the vast majority of people I know who use it say its shit and there’s enough reviews also saying its shit THEN ITS SHIT. End of discussion.

i agree, original droid flash is smooth as butter for me. granted im overclocked to 1ghz but still.

as for the flash haters, it has its flaws, but unfortunately its almost everyone on the web. until someone comes up with a better technology that becomes more widespread, ill continue to enjoy flash.

im also mindful with my information, not paranoid, but im conscious enough to not keep anything important on any of my devices that are connected. everything will have its flaws. whether its a galaxy s that cant sync email, or a macbook that has a flickering display.

Do you just take a stupid pill every time you wake up in the morning?

I think he takes the whole bottle