The Security Mentor

The latest security bug that allows a bad guy to take over your computer if you visit his web site is worse than usual. It affects almost any browser program, because it's a bug in a helper program that every browser uses. It's called Flash Player, from Adobe (click the link to download the fix). It's the program that makes some of those animated ads work.

At last report, bad guys were not yet attacking using this technique. That can change immediately of course.

Meanwhile, people using the NoScript extension to Firefox are protected because by default it blocks Flash animations unless you decide to allow them.