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

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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:39:51 +0200
From: Christian Sciberras <uuf6429@...il.com>
To: "Marcio B. Jr." <marcio.barbado@...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

So, I was updating flash on a computer lately, when I noticed the prompt
below*, reminding me of this conversation.

*or maybe it just took me a few weeks to photoshop this....you decide.

To the more reasonable readers, I guess Adobe could have had a genuine
mistake / bug in their code....nothing new.
Don't know why it's such a big deal.



[image: Inline image 1]



Cheers everone,
Chris.



On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Marcio B. Jr. <marcio.barbado@...il.com>wrote:

> 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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