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In December, I got a virus likely from such auto-play videos. Symptom and Solution. On Windows, kept getting auto-started instances program iexplore.exe runni
by graycat 12y ago
In December, I got a virus likely from such auto-play
videos.
Symptom and Solution. On Windows, kept getting auto-started instances program iexplore.exe running. Virus scanning for days didn't solve the problem. Finally a Windows system restore back to November or so did solve the problem.
Larger Solution. Of course, for each video clip on a Web page, Firefox and Flash keep saying that Flash is vulnerable.
No joke. Then they refuse to play the video unless I
confirm by clicking three times. So, great! Now those
videos no longer auto-play.
Of course, for this benefit, I am still running version
12 or some such of Flash. So, after 12 versions, Flash
still has bugs? So, I'm going to believe that 13 is such
a lucky number that finally version 13 will be safe?
Nope! So, I will stay with version 12 and, thus,
block the auto-play videos. When I do want to play a
video, it will be a significant video from a
respected source and, thus, likely safe; I have to
doubt that version 13 would be much safer.
There are other such frustrations at Web sites that
still cause me to do what you do -- leave!
- NIL8 12y agoYes! It's incredibly frustrating. I find a solution for one problem only to find out that the solution created a new problem. It's all because of sites like these. Maybe I'll just avoid these altogether or maybe I'll create a browser extension like Adblockplus that prevents me from following links to sites that are reported to have autoplay. What to do....
- sp332 12y ago13 (actually 16 last I checked) is safer because so many known vulnerabilities have been closed. Virus toolkits have exploits ready to go for old versions of Flash, and exploits for newer versions are rarer.