Virus Warning on Flash update

Hi
I keep getting a virus warning when I try to DL your flash update (from adobe site). I am trying to get the windows version for XP. This has been going on a couple weeks now and I have not installed it. I saw others have had virus warnings with Flash after installing.
NOD says it is a trojan possibly similar to the win32 genetik
Thanks,
B

pwillener wrote:
The main problem with these kind of infections is that people do not pay enough
attention on what they are downloading or installing.
Always download Flash Player updates only from the original Adobe or Macromedia site!
Always download Windows updates only from the original Microsoft site!
This goes for all software: always download software updates only from the original manufacturer's site!
I always download from the site both adobe and microsoft and that darn virus got me too! So it was not their fault
this one is a doozy. It is a dropper type trojan. I even wiped my computer and it found a way within a week to re-activate
itself.It had embed invisable code when it arrived so don't know if that had anything to do with it. It also opened a second portal
and changed the registry. The only thing that killed that picking sorry bisket eater was that microsoft antimalware tool. The first
go round I couldn't even download that for I was locked out. It had disabled javascript and removed my start button even and
was unable to get system restore to work.. After wiping my computer finally I was able to download the microsoft anti-malware
tool and finish it off for it was still lurking in my system. It took me a month of battling that sorry virus to kill it out of my entire system.
It was ALIVE I TELL YA.,Thank God for Microsoft! I had good virus protection and a firewall and it got me anyways so it helps to also
know what to do.

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