Hi, On 11/28/15, Paul in Houston, TX <Paul@houston.texas> wrote: > DoctorBill wrote: >> I read in several places that Flash Player is dangerous as it can allow >> Viruses and Trojans >> into your system. >> I went to Mozilla.org then this; >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-player/ >> >> Is this safe to use on SM 2.33.1 ? Using XP.
The current version of SM is 2.39; running SM 2.33.1 is unsafe. >> Please eschew comments on XP ! As long as you eschew using an admin account for general use ) Use the admin account for administering the machine & use an account with no privileges for general use -- like using Flash & SM 2.33.1 And use things like https://www.virustotal.com/ https://malwr.com/submission/ https://virusscan.jotti.org/ http://www.virscan.org/ to check out a program before installing it. >> Why do all these say they are for YouTube ? >> Do they work only on YouTube and nothing else ? >> >> Danke, danke. >> >> DB > > Everything is dangerous to some extent. I know that Flash works good with > XP3. > If you use Flash, be sure to install the latest version. > It is 19.0.0.226 for Windows as of Saturday, Nov 28, 2015. https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-28.html says the current version is 19.0.0.245 > Be sure to set Flash cache to zero and run Ccleaner or Bleachbit > periodically > to remove the flash cookies. > To be even safer make sure JS is OFF and stays OFF. +1 for turning javascript off. But way too many sites don't work if JS is turned off. It's kind of a pain getting the permissions set right, but using noscript & request policy continued is the best mitigation I've found for enabling JS. Anyone have other suggestions for staying (relatively) safe with JS enabled? Regards, Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
