Download critical security updates.
Adobe Flash Player and Reader (for PDF documents) is among the world's most installed software. Unfortunately, this has made applications to the popular starting point for data intrusion. As well ever discovered serious vulnerabilities in these products, as well as the details often made public until Adobe will release security updates, the threat of being exposed to an attack rather large. 
It is therefore very important that users of these programs are good to install the updates that regularly come with Adobe. This is relevant right now.
Yesterday came namely with an important security update to Flash Player. It removes a critical vulnerability exists in version 10.0.42.34. The new version has a version number of 10.0.45.2.
The easiest way to see which version you have installed, simply visit this page. There is a version number of the plug-in you have installed. In addition, one can on this page to see what is the latest version of Flash Player for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris. The latest version can be downloaded from this page.
Since it is not the same version of Flash Player that is used by Internet Explorer and other browsers for Windows, users should update both copies. This is done most easily by going in on this page with both IE and one of the other browsers you have installed, then download and install the version offered there. For most people, this could be done in under a minute.
If you also have Adobe AIR installed, this should also be updated. It can be done on this page.
Adobe Reader
In addition to Adobe is announcing that it is a security update to Adobe Reader in the next week, probably on the 16th February. This applies to version 9.3 and older. The vulnerability is, according to security company Secunia is due to a bug in Flash Player, and can be exploited to bypass certain security restrictions.
Until the patch is available discouraged users of Adobe Reader to visit unknown or untrustworthy sites, to avoid clicking on links you do not know where the points and not to open the PDF documents you do not know the origin.
