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* Make preparations to get firefox users to update their plugins as soon as the patch is out in 5 more days. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391433 rather than the 5 or 6 months it might take for users to update at current rates. | * Make preparations to get firefox users to update their plugins as soon as the patch is out in 5 more days. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391433 rather than the 5 or 6 months it might take for users to update at current rates. | ||
* Even after the patch is out keep up the information campaign to encourage users to update. Update rates remain very slow. | |||
10 days after the release of a zero day fix version only around 7% of flash users have the patch according to stats off mozilla.com pages | |||
<img src="http://people.mozilla.com/~chofmann/security/flash-upgrades-20090808.png"> | |||
Adobe is working on some fixes to this, but information campaigns will be needed until those fixes are in-place. | |||
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072709-almost-all-windows-users-vulnerable.html?ry=gs | |||
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135740/Adobe_admits_users_vulnerable_after_downloading_Reader | |||
= What to do? = | = What to do? = | ||