On 1/26/2015 8:15 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Lately the Mozilla plugin check has been confused and confusing: some
plugins that are up to date according to their publishers are listed as
out of date, and others are suddenly "unknown." What gives? Did Mozilla
suddenly abandon this and quit managing it?
Examples:
Adobe Shockwave Flash 16.0.0.287 is listed as "potentially vulnerable"
and I'm advised to update, but this is the current version.
Adobe Acrobat 10.X (in my case, 10.1.13.16) has been listed as out of
date for years, but there are no updates available (unless I want to
shell out hundreds of dollars for a version upgrade -- any reason to do
that?).
The famous Java Runtime Environment is suddenly up to date and green
although it's blocked as unsafe. Hunh?
All these are "unknown":
Windows Activation Technologies (v. 7.1.7600.16395)
VLC Web Plugin v. 2.1.3.0 as discussed here at length
Adobe Shockwave for Director v. 12.1.6.156
Microsoft Office 2010 v.14.0.4730.1010
Windows Live Photo Gallery v. 15.4.3538.513
The last two have been "unknown" for years but the other three are new
additions to the list.
Mozilla is correct. Current version since Saturday Jan 24 is 296 for
Flash. That is for all browsers except Chrome and IE 10 and 11. It's
being updated in Chrome now. Microsoft is still asleep and has not
issued an up for embedded Flash on IE 10 and 11.. I got 296 last
Saturday for SeaMonkey, Firefox and PaleMoon. I update Flash manually
and Adobe did not put it on their websites for manual update until late
on Saturday but Adobe updated Flash early Saturday morning for everyone
that has Flash set to autoupdate. That is how serious this latest zero
day exploit was as it is almost unheard of Adobe to issue an update on a
weekend and immediately update everyone on auto update as auto upate can
usually take up to 7 days to update. I had to disable Flash in IE 10
and 11 since Microsoft has slept through the whole zero day thing.
I haven't used Acrobat Reader in years but it's free. As for Adobe
Acrobat it's not a plugin but a program.
What version of Java do you have? You need the last version of Java 7
or the latest of Java 8 and you need to set the security slider
appropriately and then it won't be blocked as unsafe. Java was just
updated last week by Oracle. Java 7 goes unsupported in April so unless
you have Java only for speed tests (like me) I would recommend you
install the latest version of Java 8. Most Java speed tests will not
work on Java 8.
SeaMonkey 2.32:
Adobe Flash PlayerShockwave Flash 16.0 r0 Up to Date
16.0.0.296
Up to Date
Java Runtime EnvironmentNPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM)
Deploy Up to Date
10.75.2.13
Up to Date
Java Runtime EnvironmentNext Generation Java Plug-in 10.75.2 for
Mozilla browsers Up to Date
10.75.2.13
Up to Date
Silverlight Plug-In5.1.30514.0 Up to Date
5.1.30514.0
Up to Date
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