[Hidden-tech] Questionable Update-Your-Flash browser warnings

[Lynne Rudie]

I have had malicious update messages from Flash for a while. Do not click on the update button. Run Malware Bytes, or whatever similar protection you have to see if you have been infected, get rid of the malware. Then shut your computer down and reboot. Go to the adobe website to update your flash then shut down, reboot again.
Flash does need to be updated sometimes but never trust or download anything flash-related except what is actually on the adobe website.

Note: the first time this happened to me, and it was clear I had been hacked, I shut my computer down and called Apple. They called me back in about 3 minutes and talked me through it for free. They gave me a case number I could reactivate for free if the bogus flash comes up again — which it does once in a while but now I know what to do about it. Flash is a pain in you know where, and it shouldnt be that easy to hack, I hope adobe is working on that vulnerability. Good luck!
Lynne
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> On Oct 27, 2019, at 10:55 AM, Shel Horowitz via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
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> On a MacBookAir from I think 2012 (inherited computer), I got two different warnings to update my flash on two pages with no connection to each other.
> 
> I am not sure what version of Chrome I was running but when I went to check, it started updating to Version 77.0.3865.90 (Official Build) (64-bit)(this is AFTER I received the Adobe updater messages).
> 
> I am suspicious of these identical update messages. I figured if it was real, I could get it from the AppStore, and the update I have from November 2016 appears to be the current one.
> 
> My reasons for writing: 
> To warn others about very real-looking fake update messages, and
> To ask if my system is infected in some way, and if so, what's the best way to deal with it
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