Flash Vulnerability used to break security on Windows Vista

Found an article on The Register about a previously unknown
flash vulnerability being used to break security on Windows Vista
during a hacking contest. The original link to the article was on
Wired's
Blog
quote:
"Shane Macaulay, who played a hand bringing down a Mac during
last year's Pwn2Own contest, defeated the Vista machine using a
previously unknown vulnerability in Adobe Flash. On final day of
the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Macaulay spent the better
part of four hours trying to get the exploit to work."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/29/ubuntu_left_standing/
Can anyone verify the exploit that is being referred to in
this article or whether Adobe is aware of it?

Hi candy, glad that you found that Shockwave Flash Object, it works with the Flash files and is very important
The NPSWF files that you said are not there, those are for the Firefox browser or Chrome or some other browser. If you use Firefox and want the Flash Player for that, then close all of your browsers so you are only looking at your Desktop.
Click on this Flash Player Installer for Firefox and SAVE it to your Desktop. Then RUN it from your Desktop, and after it is finished Installing, Restart your computer.
Then Using Firefox go to the plug-ins and find a SWF vs 10.0.45.2 and make sure it is Enabled. This is just like the Shockwave Flash Object for Internet Explorer, but it is the one that works with Firefox.
Let me know if that is what you wanted to do. If you don't use Firefox, but Chrome or another browser, then this will work for that one also.
If you don't use another browser, then don't do any of this. I just thot maybe you did and that is why you were concerned that the NPSWF files were not there.
Thanks,
eidnolb

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