Flash Player is the new malware !

Question

I had a perfectly functional old Flash 10.0.32 with any security holes covered by my Security.protection
When I discovered 36 vulnerabilities I decided to "upgrade",
with no assurance that the latest version did not have at least another 100 vulnerabilities waiting to be discovered and exploited.
I was horrified that you seem to clickjack me.
I thought I was clicking for Flash 10.1, but what you gave the Firefox download manager was a GetPlus download manager.
Why on earth would I want your UNPROVEN download manager, WHICH YOU STATE HAS AN UNPATCHED VULNERABILITY ! !
I only came here to improve security on a dodgy Adobe product for which I have only rare use.
IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE THAT YOU DUMP ANOTHER HACKERS HIGHWAY ONTO MY SYSTEM.
It is also disgusting that when you gave mme Getplus INSTEAD OF the expected FLASH,
I had to accept this with no assurance that it would finally deliver Flash -
For all I knew you could have been downloading a keylogger and identity theft device.
I also am horrified by your incompetance demonstrated by the new high risk way of doing things :-
You totally failed to perform the download and upgrade after my many repeated attempts.
I gave up trying to upgrade.
Then I found that a site which always worked well now had problems due to my Flash being totally busted by your attempts.
You bungled everything - you even crippled the old version that had been functional.
I finally went back to the old way and uninstalled the broken Flash by using
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/uninstall_flash_player.exe.
I then used the old way of a direct download of Flash 10.1, but again your GetPlus download manager had its evil way.
I now have Flash plugin 10.1.53, and have removed (so far as I can see) your wretched GetPlus virus downloader.
My computer seems to have survived all your exploits,
but I am still steaming over all the needless aggravation Adobe has caused me.
When I was given this P.C. one of the first major bloat things to be un-installed was Adobe Reader.
I did not like a few 100 MBytes of bloat to do what other readers achieve with less than 10 MBytes,
and I especially did not like the fact that by the time Adobe had started up I had forgotten which PDF I needed to read.
With a little more experience I now realise there are far more important reasons to avoid / replace Adobe products.
I am now anxiously waiting for HTLM5 to replace Flash.
Alan

Answer 1

Thanks for the information,
but not looking forward to needing it when existing vulnerabilities are identified.
I saw that GetPlus has a vulnerability when I looked at the Adobe FAQ before I allowed GetPlus to invade me.
Google gives 8 results for "getplus vulnerability",
or 43,400 results when omitting the quotes.
The 43,4000 results are reduced to 89 when I use Advanced search to restrict the search to Adobe.com.
I forget the precise phrase I saw in the Adobe FAQ which increased my concern over the GetPlus fellowtraveller,
but it definitely advised that there was an as yet unpatched vulnerability.
I cannot now find the relevant FAQ.
I guess my efforts are hampered by my Honours degree in technology instead of a degree in stupidity.
I am pretty sure that I saw the click opportunity to access the relevant FAQ whilst enroute to actually installing this unwanted downloader,
and I have no wish to go through that aggravation again - but I assure you the admission of this problem does appear on Adobe.com.
Alan