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[guest]

Long story made short - Italian company specialising in selling zero-day vulnerabilities to dodgy govts got hacked & a flash vulnerability is now "weaponised (Cryptolocker) and in the wild". That means that if you have any version of flash after v8 then you are vulnerable, regardless of operating system. Linux, Android, iOS & Macs are all vulnerable via AIR stuff as well.

Adobe have a patch : https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-16.html

However it may be time to start thinking about whether you actually need Flash at all. Much like Java its a technology which now has no place on a client machine. I'd recommend deinstalling Adobe Flash, I suspect you won't be inconvenienced.

[loonylion]

haven't had flash installed since I got this computer almost 2 years ago. most of the time I don't notice (bbc news videos require it but you can usually find a copy of the video on youtube, which doesn't)

[guest]

Can't remember the last time I watched the BBC on anything other than iPlayer - and that is probably more than a year ago.

Probably a good idea to do a "spring-clean" once in a while though peeps & bin the stuff you can't remember using...

[guest]

And in an aside, youngest daughter's laptop got hit at around midnight on 7/7/15 with a dodgy flash link from the local 17-year old "computer expert".

She's lucky - it wasn't cryptolocker but it is probably going to require a wipe as we're up to 9 threats and it hasn't hit 50% (from a CD-boot). Not convinced that given the fallout this week there is any other way of "cleaning" it.