I have mentioned many times before of the need to update your computer Operating Systems, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware applications.<\/p>\n
But I also must mention again to please update your applications as well – ESPECIALLY ADOBE PRODUCTS.<\/p>\n
A 2009 Global Threat Report from ScanSafe, a Cisco company, shows that in the 4th quarter of 2009 80% of all web-based exploits were malicious PDFs! It’s not surprising that the PDF number is large, but this number is so large it’s hard to believe, especially in as much as Flash exploits were 18%!<\/strong> PDFs and Flash are ground zero for malware on the web these days. Just by keeping up to date on your client software you can protect yourself against almost all of it. Users should update to versions 9.3.1 or 8.2.1, the links to which are in the advisory. Alternatively, you can “Check for Updates” in the Help menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have mentioned many times before of the need to update your computer Operating Systems, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware applications. But I also must mention again to please update your applications as well – ESPECIALLY ADOBE PRODUCTS. A 2009 Global Threat Report from ScanSafe, a Cisco company, shows that in the 4th quarter of 2009 80% of … Continue reading “Security Threat News”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,49,48,50,47,52,7,21,51,13,1,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-virus","category-computer-protection","category-conflicker","category-hack","category-infection-removal","category-maleware","category-osx","category-security","category-spyware-removal","category-tech-tips","category-uncategorized","category-windows","category-windows-7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
Those are some frightening numbers!<\/p>\n
Here<\/a> is the advisory from Adobe.<\/p>\n