adobe flash player - ransomware warning

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Apr 9th, 2016 3:50 pm

ROYinTO [OP]: Deal Fanatic; Dec 12, 2009; 5341 posts; 2836 upvotes; Toronto

Apr 9th, 2016 3:50 pm

adobe flash player - ransomware warning

This might be old news to some.
Earlier this week adobe announced an update to it's flash player to circumvent the latest zeroday ransomware.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-adobe ... SKCN0X502K
Some say it affects Win10 only.

On my XP box, if you do updates from control panel, it will only update the default browser. I had to open a different browser, copy and paste the update link to update all my browsers.

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Apr 9th, 2016 4:17 pm

townie22: Deal Addict; Jan 2, 2012; 4746 posts; 1429 upvotes; Charlottetown

Apr 9th, 2016 4:17 pm

thanks OP, have 3 computers running 10.

Apr 10th, 2016 10:44 am

chocolatecoveredraisins: Banned; Dec 4, 2015; 169 posts; 10 upvotes

Apr 10th, 2016 10:44 am

Shouldn't it autoupdate by itsel? do I need to do manually?

Apr 10th, 2016 2:17 pm

ROYinTO [OP]: Deal Fanatic; Dec 12, 2009; 5341 posts; 2836 upvotes; Toronto

Apr 10th, 2016 2:17 pm

chocolatecoveredraisins wrote: ↑Shouldn't it autoupdate by itsel? do I need to do manually?

Depends on your settings.
Forcing a manual update now will get the update now rather than waiting for whenever your auto updates might be set.
You are at risk until the updates are done.
FYI my default browser was set to automatically update, but I was able to force it to update now.
My other browsers had to be forced even though they were set to auto update. For example IE was sitting way back at version 17 something - current ver is 21.0.0.182.

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