Jeremy, i can't see how it will make things any worse to punch these holes
you still fork flash in its own process like you do now
only you sandbox it.... how is it any worse ?

this is just an observation that if i would write malware (which of course,
i would never)
i would just use flash plugins exploits to be cross browser compatible
and this renders the sandbox nearly useless for future attacks

what "decent" malware writer would bother with webkit explits ? none!

besides, if you look at the help forum of chrome, you will see some people
are starting to catch malware like this
which is btw, how i got this evil site's URL.... i would never click on my
own such a foul looking site

as for the auto updating issue, i suggested a solution in one of my prev
posts
and i am sure you can have a word with adobe for this

in a sense chrome makes it easier to infect itself(!) as you run plugins in
the medium integrity level (Vista and above)
and you normally install chrome in the local user account, so no UAC prompt
will help the user
if some delicate file or DLL is written to chrome folder, and then it will
do something never intended

also, one more note, flash is special enough that if you would "hard code"
the solution to it, you would anyays
solve most infections problems in the world, and maybe even cancer... who
knows ?

and regarding what CPU said (and ignoring the auto-update) it seems that
flash does work flawlessly
using your '--safe-plugins' switch, and doing this on that site does stop
the attack
(tbh, maybe the attack was stopped because the sun's java died in the
sandbox, but Ian said it was a flash based
attack)

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