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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2012 2:13:39 GMT
forums.adobe.com/thread/957806A contact of mine sent me an email this morning, warning that his Mac ( YES, a Mac !) had been hit by a virus which then sent out forged emails to people in his email list. Perhaps luckily, when I checked my emails this morning, his warning email was the most recent received, but 3 forged emails supposedly from him were below it. The only recent activity that he could think of that may have caused this was an "Adobe" Flash Update. I just found the attached thread from Adobe regarding this. Alex
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Post by XTRProf on Feb 22, 2012 3:15:01 GMT
Don't ever update Adobe from any email. You can set your Adobe clients to update from Adobe itself and give you a message that a latest update is in the pipeline.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2012 3:25:08 GMT
Don't ever update Adobe from any email. You can set your Adobe clients to update from Adobe itself and give you a message that a latest update is in the pipeline. Chong Perhaps Mac users may get a little complacent, thinking only Windows gets targeted, and only Windows has major vulnerabilities ? Alex
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Post by XTRProf on Feb 23, 2012 2:46:46 GMT
I received the latest flash player update message direct from Adobe last night and I was, for a moment, hesitant to update it. But I told myslef this cannot be the virus amok version as it was direct from Adobe. So I clicked the button and hoped for the best. Whew ........., all ok!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2012 3:47:04 GMT
I received the latest flash player update message direct from Adobe last night and I was, for a moment, hesitant to update it. But I told myslef this cannot be the virus amok version as it was direct from Adobe. So I clicked the button and hoped for the best. Whew ........., all ok! DITTO !
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Post by rowuk on Feb 25, 2012 13:14:43 GMT
That is what you get when you use a Mac like a PC. Since the advent of the internet, we NEVER have installed from e'mails.
I threw Norton out in 2008. It is a bigger virus than what it is trying to prevent. ClamAV seems to work just fine.
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