Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) or Adobe Flash Player is a large weight, runtime environment for multimedia platform development that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. It can be used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages.

Lack of Security

Adobe Flash seems to be vulnerable to an endless string of malware. Adobe products, especially FlashPlayer, Shockwave Player and Adobe (PDF) Reader, have had some serious security holes (vulnerabilities) that hackers that code viruses exploit to infect people's computers.

Adobe Flash malware also has the ability to be cross-platform, infecting everything from desktops to smartphones and anything else that runs Flash.

Get Adobe Flash and Reader without GetPlus in Firefox

To avoid the Adobe GetPlus DLM Vulnerability, you must be careful how you install or update the Adoble Flash Player plugin. Steps to avoid this spyware is covered on the Adobe GetPlus DLM Vulnerability page.