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<blockquote data-quote="Aura" data-source="post: 242415" data-attributes="member: 25785"><p>To be honest, any Adobe products could be listed as "<strong>Commonly Exploited Items" </strong>as they are pretty much all targetted by exploits. And there's more to this list. Look up the RIG Exploit Pack, it affects a lot of programs, and this is only one exploit pack, not even talking about the others. Also, all of these programs can be managed inside the browser and you can disable them but add exceptions for certain websites, or even switch their "Always on" for "On demand" so a prompt will come up everytime the browser wants to execute that plugin.</p><p></p><p>As for Skype, it's not that it's not secure, it's mostly that people don't know how to use it properly in a safe and secure way. Otherwise, using it is just fine. Of course the best would be to use XMPP or IRC but I guess that the "casual user" doesn't even know what these are, so I doubt it would happen.</p><p></p><p>By the way, Ghostery, NoScript and HTTPSEverywhere are also excellent browser addons, this combined to your own Antivirus browser addons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aura, post: 242415, member: 25785"] To be honest, any Adobe products could be listed as "[B]Commonly Exploited Items" [/B]as they are pretty much all targetted by exploits. And there's more to this list. Look up the RIG Exploit Pack, it affects a lot of programs, and this is only one exploit pack, not even talking about the others. Also, all of these programs can be managed inside the browser and you can disable them but add exceptions for certain websites, or even switch their "Always on" for "On demand" so a prompt will come up everytime the browser wants to execute that plugin. As for Skype, it's not that it's not secure, it's mostly that people don't know how to use it properly in a safe and secure way. Otherwise, using it is just fine. Of course the best would be to use XMPP or IRC but I guess that the "casual user" doesn't even know what these are, so I doubt it would happen. By the way, Ghostery, NoScript and HTTPSEverywhere are also excellent browser addons, this combined to your own Antivirus browser addons. [/QUOTE]
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