misabella - Slashdot User

Comment Re:All of Them? (Score 1) 149

by misabella on Sunday March 06, 2011 @03:27PM (#35399702) Attached to: How many Slashdot polls did you respond to last year?

I would NEVER use /. and FB or Twitter in the same context. /. is worth a daily stop, the other two are time-wasters. I would have selected "most of them" if it had been an option. Some have no relevance to me, so I neither respond, nor vote.

Adobe Download Manager Installing Software Without Consent 98

Posted by timothy on Friday February 19, 2010 @05:31PM from the plus-one-invitation dept.

"Not all is worth cheering about as Adobe turns 20," writes reader adeelarshad82, who excerpts from a story at PC Magazine's Security Watch: "Researcher Aviv Raff has found a problem in ADM (Adobe Download Manager) and the method through which it is delivered from adobe.com. The net effect of the problem is that a user can be tricked into downloading and installing software using ADM without actual consent. Tonight Adobe acknowledged the report and said they were working on the issue with Raff and NOS Microsystems, the company that wrote ADM."

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