full-disclosure - Re: Adobe Flash UpdateInstalls Other Warez without Consent

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Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 18:21:01 -0300
From: "Marcio B. Jr." <marcio.barbado@...il.com>
To: noloader@...il.com
Cc: FunSec List <funsec@...uxbox.org>,
	Full Disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	BugTraq <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: Adobe Flash UpdateInstalls Other Warez
	without Consent

You may be interested in getting acquainted with the fact that life is
possible (it's actually stupendously better) without crapware.


On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com> wrote:
> The company that writes the worlds most insecure software [1,2,3] has
> figured out a way to further increase an attack surface.
>
> Adobe now includes additional warez in their updates without consent.
> The warez includes a browser and tools bar. The attached image is what
> I got when I agreed to update Adobe Flash because of recent security
> vulnerability fixes.
>
> It appears Adobe has become a whore to Google like Mozilla.
>
> +1 Adobe.
>
> [1] http://www.google.com/#q=Adobe+site%3Asecurityfocus.com.
> [2] http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=adobe&search_type=all&cves=on
> [3] http://lastwatchdog.com/adobe-surpasses-microsoft-favorite-hackers-target/
> [4] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/29/security_predictions_2010/
>
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Marcio Barbado, Jr.

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