Adobe Releases New Security Updates for Flash Player, Shockwave Player and Adobe Reader & Acrobat

Early last week, Adobe released new security updates for Flash Player, Shockwave Player and Adobe Reader & Acrobat.

Obtain the latest Flash Player security updates from Adobe Security Bulletin APSB11-18. For the latest Shockwave Player security updates, read bulletin APSB11-17. And for Adobe Reader (all versions including Reader X) & Acrobat, see bulletin APSB11-16.

Calling for a superhero

This one's for calling Batman. When we want the I.T. guy, we use one shaped like a pizza.

Season’s Greetings

Beware of Geeks bearing *.GIFs

“All A-Twitter” a limerick for AskWoody.com

Cartoon: WinXP menus versus Win7 menus

An Original Cartoon for AskWoody.com

Important updates on MS10-070 patch

Susan Bradley has an excellent analysis and all sorts of important advice. For the first time, she’s posting it online in the Lounge – not in Windows Secrets Newsletter (which isn’t coming out this week).

MS10-070 patches the 0day holes in ASP.NET that I’ve been talking about.

Take a look at the discussion.

(By the way, to get the latest on all of this, follow me on Twitter: @woodyleonhard . Don’t forget the “h”.)

Mozilla Releases Firefox 4.0 Beta 1

Mozilla has released Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 on their web site.

One notable change in this version is its “tabs on top” interface, similar to what Google Chrome’s UI looks like.

Read the Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Release Notes page on what is included.

As a reminder that this is a beta and not a final product. Even though this Firefox 4 beta is relatively stable, some features may not work as expected. Normal Firefox users should just wait for the final release of Firefox 4.0 which is scheduled to be due out late this year.

Google Chrome 4.1 has been released to “stable” channel

Google has released their Chrome Web Browser version 4.1 on their web site.

UPDATE: See these latest blogs on the recent builds of Google Chrome 4.1 here:
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/03/stable-update-disable-translate.html
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/03/stable-update-fix-extension-install.html
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/03/stable-channel-update.html