Adobe Flash updates

Scammers trying to get users to update Adobe Flash are busy again, both on PCs and Android devices.

Flash has been dead and gone for a couple of years already, so any popup, SMS, email, etc telling you to click a link to update Flash is just going to install malware on your system.

I got such a popup and it wouldn't let me close that box or even close Firefox. I opened Task Manager, right-clicked each Firefox entry on the General tab and clicked "End Process". I restarted Win 10 normally and ran Malwarebytes (free) which didn't find anything. But this incident suggests the site and/or its host server has been compromised...

A forced power off would be another way to escape, if you can't end all browser's processes in Task Manager, but that's more drastic because you'd lose anything that wasn't already saved by other open apps.

This same malware is also being circulated as supposed links to package tracking numbers (DHL, UPS etc) and as messages from providers like Virgin Mobile. So if you get something unexpected, don't click it..!