Worse than Micro$oft? Yes, there you have adobe. More expensive than M$, slow, bloated and unreliable software maker.
All of their products are a pain in the neck and they keep the money flood because they had a good idea once (photoshop). A bunch of incompetents.
The community needs to get rid of Adobe ASAP. Specially flash, flawed from design... Activex anyone?

Well it appears that the "update" Adobe provides for IE8 is not the newest, fixed version. The one for Firefox is, however.

it seems that noscript itself can replace the other two add-ons. flashy crap is invoked through scripts, fewer add-ons means fewer possible vulnerabilities.

Meanwhile their release notes are no doubt still stuck at several versions ago, they picked that trick up from apple's quicktime.
And they so smartly keep adding wonderful functionality like 'ability to read and write to the clipboard' to name but one thing, yeah that could not possibly lead to any kind of abuse, in a network plugin, used by people that have no idea of how computers work really.

And jilocasin is right flashblock is your friend, but look at the numbers and how many people still use IE.. they won't be using flashblock any time soon I fear.

I agree, Flash is nothing but a resource hogging advertisement platform. I use Linux and my favourite 3 Firefox add ons are, Flashblock, adblock and noscript.

My pages are much faster with Flashblock running and it saves battery life too since my laptop does not need to work near as hard rendering those pages.

Once again, FlashBlock (if you're using FireFox) is your friend.

Only enable flash if I'm actually looking to watch something in flash.

Safer, faster, and your websites are so much easier to read without all that over the top advertising.

Stopping tomorrow's flash exploit today, well that's just a tasty bonus.

It would be interesting if we were able to see what % of compromised computers/botnets in the world were infected through flash vulnerabilities. I'm guessing it would be upwards of 70-80%. It's funny how everyone complains about Microsoft and IE security but nobody complains about Adobe when their computers are rooted through banner ads on a webpage.