Adobe has fixed a number of critical bugs in Flash Player. And for good reason. All users are advised to install the update ASAP, or sooner if possible.

The update can be found HERE>

Many email inboxes are being flooded with announcements that you have won a lottery. They usually that say something to the effect: your email address was picked at random, and has won a ton of money.

Well, that does not happen. Every last one of these emails is a scam. Period.

To be more exact, many of these are what is called an “advanced fee scam”. If you contact them, they will try to get enough personal information to steal you identity several times over, and secondly, you will be required to advance money in order to “process your winnings” or some such phony excuse.

One of the most certain things in life: You will never see that money again, and you will never get any winnings whatsoever. Period.

Unfortunately, thousands of gullible people fall for these scams ever year, and they loose millions of dollars. Don’t be one of them.

And please also ensure that none of your frends and relatives fall for this scam. Talk about it.

Users of the RealPlayer or Helix Player are very strongly advised to upgrade to the latest version immediately. Older versions may be vulnerable to ‘buffer overflow’ attacks that may allow an attacker to gain control of the users computer.

Source: infopackets

Please check out our revised list of recommended software, most of which is security related.

Click on the sidebar item, Recommeded Software, or click HERE.