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

[Shel Horowitz]

Thanks, everyone. It seems I was right to be cautious. Ira, form the other
two responses I got, you mght weant to be careful.

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On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 11:16 AM PeopleFirst Tech <zach at peoplefirst.tech>
wrote:

> Hi Shel, Flash for Chrome is bundled within it, so you don't need to
> update it separately and that message is probably a scam. Additionally, if
> you have Flash installed for Safari and/or Firefox (and I advise against
> it), then it would need to receive updates from directly from Adobe. You
> can turn on the auto update option from the Flash preference pane and also
> check updates there, but to reiterate, I suggest uninstalling the
> standalone Flash and using Chrome for the rare site that still uses Flash
> in 2019.
>
> Download the uninstaller from Adobe:
> https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-mac-os.html
>
> Avast antivirus for Mac: https://www.avast.com/en-us/for-mac
> Avast will catch most traditional viruses but performs poorly for PuPs
> (potentially wanted programs, such as "cleaners") and browser hijacks.
>
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> On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 10:55 AM Shel Horowitz via Hidden-discuss <
> hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>
>>    1. To warn others about very real-looking fake update messages, and
>>    2. To ask if my system is infected in some way, and if so, what's the
>>    best way to deal with it
>>
>>
>> Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm)
>> ________________________________________________
>> Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk,
>> "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World"
>> *http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809
>> <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>**
>> <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>*
>> (move your mouse to "event videos")
>>
>> Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger,
>> poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change
>>
>> Twitter: @shelhorowitz
>>
>> * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified
>> * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame
>>
>> http://goingbeyondsustainability.com
>> mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388
>> Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest:
>> Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad
>> Levinson)
>>
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