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Adobe Shockwave Player updates

Adobe has also released 4 updates for critical issues… Shockwave is not Flash Player, a lot of people don’t use Shockwave for anything.  If you aren’t certain that you have it installed, I would actually suggest that you DO install it since if you have an older version, most of them will be removed when you upgrade to the newer version.  Check out, for free, http://www.adobe.com/go/EN_US-H-GET-SHOCKWAVE for installation.

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Adobe Acrobat Reader has 29 patches

Adobe, because of all the patching issues they have been having, have gone to a quarterly patch cycle that affects Mac, Linux, and Windows.  Simply put, update for free to Adobe 9.2 Reader, for free, at http://www.adobe.com/go/EN_US-H-GET-READER and get the new version.   If you are using Acrobat Pro, please follow the update procedure in the help menu of that program.

If you have a Mac, by default, there is a program called “Preview” that you probably use and unless you went out of your way to install Adobe Acrobat, you don’t have it….

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Adobe Acrobat and Flash Player patches and why does Adobe get picked on so much?

Adobe seems to be getting picked on so much over the past year compared to Microsoft, Sun, or other companies.  The answer is simple, Adobe products are used on many platforms, from Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and others, if a hacker can exploit a flaw in an Adobe product, there is so much more marketshare out there for them to use.  So without further to do……

Adobe has released patches for Adobe Acrobat, Air, and Flash player for an odd exploit.  The exploit takes advantage Flash running inside of a PDF file, which most people have never seen as opposed to never use.  This patch is still  important as this has been exploited in the wild by websites that offer these files and email links, but the patches are free if you are not being patched automatically by us, check out AcrobatReader, FlashPlayer, and AIR.  Normally, I wouldn’t bring up Adobe AIR, which is flash for your desktop, but most Adobe products tend to slip in Adobe AIR on your computer, which means it is time to get that updated, too.

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