Comments on: New Adobe Flash Player Update Fixes 6 Flaws

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:36:37 +0000

Result: “Please enter a valid URL and try again.” Same thing now without the “s”. Tried to subscribe directly from http://krebsonsecurity.com/feed/, and received popup message on Yahoo page saying “There were some problems while loading your page: Sorry, we were unable to add this feed. Please try again later.”

No problem subscribing via Firefox’s Live Bookmarks, so the issue seems to be with (My) Yahoo.

By: BrianKrebs

BrianKrebs — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:16:22 +0000

Strange. Try adding an “s” to the http and see if that works.

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:56:55 +0000

The KrebsOnSecurity RSS feed has quit working again on My Yahoo page (“There is currently no content in this feed.”); trying to re-add it produces an error message. I’m sure that this is Yahoo’s problem, but I’m noting it because others may be encountering the same issue. (My other RSS feeds are working on Yahoo.)

The feed is available at http://krebsonsecurity.com/feed/.

Thanks.

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:57:57 +0000

Brian,

Thanks for the reply. I was able to read the feed on the website you indicated, but it had not showing up recently in my Yahoo RSS reader. I tried “re-subscribing”, and it seems to be working there now.

By: Brian Krebs

Brian Krebs — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:39:51 +0000

Charles, can you not view the feed at

http://krebsonsecurity.com/feed/

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:10:50 +0000

Just wondering what happened to the RSS feed for this incredibly useful site. BTW, the last time I checked, the Flash player update was version 11.3.300.271.

By: jjjdavidson

jjjdavidson — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:24:30 +0000

Brian, it appears that the “silent automatic” update only applies in some conditions, at least on Windows. Look at this discussion thread on the Adobe forums — http://forums.adobe.com/message/4487768 — and this feature request in the Adobe “bugbase” — https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3211239.

It appears that automatic installation of quarterly updates (even security updates) may be delayed by as much as 30(!) days, particularly on workstations that are rarely rebooted.

By: BrianKrebs

BrianKrebs — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:01:06 +0000

Charlie, it probably got downloaded when you grabbed an application that requires it to run, such as Tweetdeck or Pandora. My guess is that it’s one of those two, but if you don’t remember what app you installed it with, it’s the one that stops working after you uninstall AIR

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:52:14 +0000

Any idea what Adobe AIR does, or if I need it? Checking as you directed, it appears to have been installed on my Mac when I bought it new from Apple, and has never been updated since then. Can I safely uninstall or disable it instead of upgrading it? This is the first I’ve heard of it.

By: Andrew Z

Andrew Z — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:03:21 +0000

The Firefox extention HTTPS-Everywhere will force https:// if a valid cert’ is present. That may account for some of it