Adobe has issued an update to Macromedia Flash Player.  The new version is 9,0,16,0. 

Flash provides specially formatted and enhanced web content.   You probably have Flash installed whether you know it or not. In fact, as reported by Adobe, 97.3% of the worlds PC’s have Flash Player installed.

http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/

You can check your version of Flash at the following site:

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/security/

By the way, the web page that shows the “Global Storage Settings panel” is not just an image or example, it is the actual control panel for your computer, displayed via a web page.

“Practice Safe Computing”

Adobe has issued an update to Macromedia Flash Player.  The new version is 9,0,16,0. 

Flash provides specially formatted and enhanced web content.   You probably have Flash installed whether you know it or not. In fact, as reported by Adobe, 97.3% of the worlds PC’s have Flash Player installed.

http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/

You can check your version of Flash at the following site:

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/security/

By the way, the web page that shows the “Global Storage Settings panel” is not just an image or example, it is the actual control panel for your computer, displayed via a web page.

“Practice Safe Computing”

If you have a file that you suspect might contain a virus, get it checked at a “Multi-Engine Single File Analyzer”, and get a full report, straight away.  We recommend:

http://virusscan.jotti.org/

http://www.virustotal.com/en/indexx.html

You could go to each antivirus software vender’s web sites and do the same, but this way you get them all in one fell swoop.

If AOL is your Internet Service Provider, you ought to be feeling a little naked!

The following is from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Were You Exposed by AOL’s Data Leak?

Recently, AOL violated the privacy of 650,000 users by publicly releasing three months of search query records. Search terms can expose the most intimate details of a person’s life. These records could be connected back to you and cause you great harm. Would you want strangers to know where you or your child work or go to school? How about everyone seeing search queries that reference your financial information, medical history, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation?”

AOL customers need to know if they are personally affected — and AOL should be told to rectify the damage done and to improve its privacy-protections in the future.

For more info:

Well it is abut time!  Google has finally cleaned it’s index of known dangerous web sites from it’s index.  It follows the lead of MSN which did this last year.  So wake up Yahoo and AOL!  Now how about you?

Please note that this does not guarantee that you won’t encounter a dangerous web site that does its darn well best to gain control of your computer.  But it certainly helps.

If you encounter a fake Phishing email, we suggest that you report it to the Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination (PIRT) Squad, which is a service of CastleCops.

A global phishing termination operation launched by CastleCops and Sunbelt Software, the volunteer PIRT Squad is comprised of folks who report phish, investigate phish, and actively work on phish takedown and termination (original concept by Robin Laudanski). PIRT is funded by CastleCops. Become a PIRT Squad terminator by reporting phish today!