In an advisory issued over a week ago, Adobe warned that an attacker could cause a system crash and take control of any vulnerable system. Unlike the Firefox vulernability, the Adobe flaw was being targeted by several attacks. The Trojan's links to the hacker's command-and-control servers had been severed, Avira said.Īdobe has also been busy patching a vulnerability that surfaced in Shockwave Player version 11.5.8.612 and earlier for Mac and Windows. The Trojan has also been neutralised by Avira, a German security company. In turn the Trojan downloaded more malware put the hacker in complete control. The script was designed to install a Trojan horse on any redirected Windows PC. Click on Menu > Add-ons > Plugins > click on Options for Shockwave Flash and uncheck the tick button for the Enable Adobe Flash protected mode. Telenor said that visitors to the Nobel site were redirected to a Taiwanese server that responded with a JavaScript exploit. 'The underlying problematic code does exist, but other code changes since Firefox 3.6 seem to be shielding us from the vulnerability.' If you do see the words '64-bit Edition,' go back to step 1 and be sure that you have selected the correct browser.

If you do not see the words '64-bit Edition' next to the version number, you are running the 32-bit version of Internet Explorer. Scroll down the page and hit the 'Agree and Install Now' button. The first thing you have to do is open Firefox and surf to or Google the following keywords: 'Adobe Shockwave Player download'. 'Firefox 4 beta users appear safe for the moment,' Daniel Veditz, a Mozilla security engineer, blogged. In the Help menu, select About Internet Explorer. This video shows you how to easily download and install the Adobe Shockwave Player in Firefox.

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