Yet another Adobe Flash exploit:

http://www.computerworld.com/article...ansomware.html


The vulnerability affects all versions of Flash Player on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS.

All the more reason you should have all plugins set to ask-to-run rather than always-run as a security precaution.

It is very strange to me, also, that Adobe Flash keeps getting hammered, when HTML5 plus JavaScript, often touted as the inevitable (and "secure") successor, is IMHO far more vulnerable and un-patchable.

With JavaScript (and, with or without HTML5), you can fundamentally modify the behavior of almost every aspect of the system, dynamically. Without changing one scrap of the "secure" source-code that you are executing, you can transform its behavior for good or for ill. When "2+2" can be made to no longer equal "4," you have a problem.

Also, the purported exploit merely led you to an exploit-URL. It did not, and it could not have, "quietly installed" anything at all without being permitted to do so. You can lead a horse to a pool, but you can't make him drink piss.