After the previous FH stub installer posting I made a reasoned explanation in my comment on their site about preferring a full installer file rather than a stub, and got roundly flamed by some fanboy jerk for “whining” about their service that were following a bundling-as-profit-center business approach, so ever since I’ve stopped blindly clicking on the summary download link for any of their notifications and generally just use the source vendor link for a direct download.

Adobe doesn’t easily or readily provide the key master version link Brian usually references in his posts on Flash updates, which I’m sure is intended to drive as many people as possible into downloading what they bundle (McAfee or whoever) so as to boost their own profit center revenues.

Here lately though, on Adobe, Brian beats my File Hippo by at least three days now – they’ve fallen down lately – but I must admit, these emergency patches are probably out of FIleHippo’s mission capability.

Even MajorGeeks, who are fairly well known to dispense with junk, now have stub installers with many of the handy utilities listed on their site. It is a grim reality of the money making needs of the sites – otherwise they will probably go away.

in reference to Zero-Day, can you explain to me exactly what this means in terms of computer hackers and technology?

Sincerely,
Dana W.

Cheers

You’re right, it is only a warning prompt. My apologies for the misunderstanding and for not noticing your prior mention of the same Adobe blog post.

Thanks for the clarification.

I got re-directed to Adobe which as usual prompted me to install the Linux versions whereas I’m looking for the Windows versions for client purposes. That really irritates me because Adobe does not make it easy to override that automatic detection.

I had the same problem with Google Chrome updates, until I found and saved the direct download links for the Windows versions.

There are times when “being helpful” via autodetection is not helpful.

JimboC, it’s not a sandbox. It’s just a prompt warning the user about executing flash content embedded in Microsoft Office document. Reread Adobe’s blog.

Yep, Chrome very often will update its built-in Flash player a day or more in advance of the official patch from Adobe, although prior to this update I experienced a few cases where they lagged Adobe’s advisories. Good to see that they’re back in front!