From ComputerWorld: “More than 9 out of every 10 Windows users are vulnerable to the Flash zero-day vulnerability that Adobe won’t patch until Thursday, Danish security company Secunia says. According to Secunia, 92% of the 900,000 users who have recently run the company’s Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility have Flash Player 10 on their PCs, while 31% have Flash Player 9. (The total exceeds 100% because some users have installed both.) The most-current versions of Flash Player — 9.0.159.0 and 10.0.22.87) — are vulnerable to hackers conducting drive-by attacks hosted on malicious and legitimate-but-compromised sites. Antivirus vendors have reported hundreds, in some cases thousands, of sites launching drive-bys against Flash.”

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135937/Almost_all_Windows_users_vulnerable_to_Flash_zero_day_attacks
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/28/1412255/92-of-Windows-PCs-Vulnerable-To-Zero-Day-Attacks-On-Flash

Translation: Be very careful for the next week, don’t visit any website that you don’t trust 100%. Once the patch for Adobe Flash has been released, download and apply it as soon as possible.

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