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Archive for October 13, 2008
The Holiday Inn Express/Adobe Flash 9 Virus
October 13, 2008 by roland.
For a few days now, I have been running into what I call the Holiday Inn Express/Adobe Flash 9 virus. If you haven’t encountered this virus consider yourself lucky. It is a platform neutral virus and exists on Web sites which allow advertising using Adobe. I run into this a lot on RagingBull.com (or as it is known far and wide Raging Bullshit.com BTW, isn’t their new look about as appealing as a colonostomy?
This particular virus is something billed as “The Smart Show”. It sits their running in a little ad box just chewing up your bandwidth and CPU cycles like an ex-wife and her lawyer through your assets. The only “STOP” option is to click on the little camera icon in the lower left corner. This fools you by halting the stream and switching to a three or four second slide show display.
You can’t turn it off! You can’t block it because too many other losers used Flash Player 9 for their Web site creation. This is a virus of unparalleled magnitude. It looks like the only way to get rid of it is to never enable adobe again.
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