On 08/29/2014 05:20 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
Hi all,
When using firefox I'm repeatedly confronted by a popup asking if I want
to install flash (usually to view some advertising). This must happen
dozens of times a day.
Be careful here. There exists a form of mal-ware which is a pop-up that
tells you to "update" your flash player, but in fact, its an attempt to
get you to install the mal-ware. The point that sticks out here is that
the "flash" player that they are trying to install does not come from
Adobe/Shockwave.
Does anybody know if it is possible to stop that, and if so, how to
do it?
Stop going to sites with infected ads....
TIA,
Mike Wright
Seriously, I have the flash-plugin installed directly from the
adobe-linux repo, and from time-to-time on certain sites, I too see that
pop-up. I close it as quick as I can (it doesn't like to be closed,
either). Sometimes I have to kill firefox and restart it....
It can be a PITA.
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