The Abobe Flash Player has a zero day defect that is currently being targeted by attackers across the world who have set up over 200,000 webpages for exploitation of the defect.  The vulnerability could be exploited to cause a denial of service ( DOS ) situation.  It is reported that Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and 9.0.124.0 are at risk.  The defect occurs when the flash player tries to process a harmful swf file.  Symantec and McAfee are reporting that different exploits are crafted to exploit the different versions of Adobe Flash and that the exploits exist for both IE and Firefox.  Users should visit www.adobe.com to download the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player to protect themselves from this attack.

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