The good news is that disabling Adobe Flash will close these security gaps and even prevent those fake ads from showing up in the first place, though additional ad blocking software may be necessary to snuff them out entirely.
This is simply an attempt to dupe users and divert attention from whatever’s being sneaked onto their PC, so don’t fall for it.
Recent versions of this tactic have actually included legit versions of Adobe Flash alongside whatever malware they’re packing.
So if you’re being randomly prompted to download and install one, it’s a fake version of Adobe and likely carrying some form of malicious software. Originally called Adobe Reader For Windows Tablets (Version 1.0) was released on the Microsoft Windows Store on the second week of December 2012, based on the Adobe Reader Mobile engine found in the iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows phone versions, is the first application written by Adobe Systems for the Windows 8/RT Metro Style interface. If you’re running the most recently updated version of decent browser, you shouldn’t have to manually install an Adobe Flash update as the browser will do so automatically, and from the proper source directly from Adobe. Sometimes publishers take a little while to make this information available, so please check back in a few days to see if it has been updated. Time for Arlo to ditch Flash, hopfully during the course of this month. We don't have any change log information yet for version 2021.007.20099 of Adobe Reader DC. To be fair, there are still parts of the internet that run on Flash, but most of these are legacy sites that never made the jump to HTML5. HTML5 is more powerful, easier for developers to use, and is much safer than Flash, and the overwhelming majority of popular websites migrated over to HTML5 ages ago. Backdoor malware installation, and data collection have found their ways onto many a PC thanks to the holes in Flash’s security.
However Flash has became notoriously known as the entry point for many a security breach. Historically Adobe’s Flash Player was one of the most widely used browser plugins on the internet.