If you didn't even know it was in development, then here is your exciting news. Hopefully the fear of losing Happy Wheels did not prevent your restful sleep. She is sending The White Rabbit (Alice In Wonderland), Ichabod Crane and a Deer Hunter trick-or-treating this year.Moments before the horrific, blasphemous death of flash, the java script version of Happy Wheels has arrived.
Leslie is the Marketing Manager at ITS, and provides timely technology tips for our end-users.
If you receive an Adobe Flash update window, and think you may actually be due for an update, you can always visit the site directly to check: Most websites that previously relied on Adobe Flash content are now using HTML 5 coding to provide a safer experience, and use an embedded plugin for their Flash content. I gathered my wits in time, though, and looked at the address bar, the multiple pop-ups and hovered over the buttons.Īdobe Flash is being phased out, due to security issues.
While I had been hoping to see and capture the fake Adobe Flash update in the wild, it still surprised me! My first reaction was to reach for the download button.
Normally, with a Mac laptop, we can run a couple clean-up tools remotely to reset the browsers and get the user back to their normal browser experience within an hour. ITS was contacted and began clean-up on the machines. Attempts to open new tabs blocked by their firewall, as those pages were leading to other infected and/or inappropriate content.Web browser beeping and talking to them, warning them that their computer was infected.Offers to clean their infected machine.Pop-ups everywhere, for all sorts of products and virus warnings.Some or all of the following symptoms then occurred: Thinking they did indeed need an Adobe Flash update, they clicked. While the users had intended to go to a specific site to gather information for a lesson or check sources for student projects, the resources they were seeking had been hijacked and now housed a nefarious hacking tool.
These users were all performing seemingly normal tasks on Chrome, clicked on a link to go to a specific site, and the link popped up a series of Adobe Flash update prompts. Our techs have seen a few machines (Mac laptops specifically) come through recently that have fallen victim to the same fake Adobe Flash update prompt.