Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak

Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by someguy1233 on Sunday July 12, 2015 @10:11PM (#9875989)

Important PSA for Skype Users: Open up "Internet Options" (yes, the ones in internet explorer), security tab, and add https://apps.skype.com to the "Restricted Sites" list. Skype will still work fine, however there will be no advertisements.

This is important because Microsoft seems to use a lot of Flash advertisements without checking them (I've had plenty of "MICROSOFT VERIFIED DRIVER FIXING" ads come up inside of Skype, so I'm sure some zero day could slip though their ad system)

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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by aptwebapps on Sunday July 12, 2015 @10:35PM (#9876060)

Skype on Windows has ads? Is that a recent thing? The Mac version doesn't, or not yet, anyway.

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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by brobinson on Sunday July 12, 2015 @11:10PM (#9876168)

It's had ads for at least two years now. That was the last time I used it on Windows.

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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by astrodust on Monday July 13, 2015 @01:28PM (#9879559)

The OS X version now has ads, but only on certain pages. Highly annoying. This was one of the historical differentiators.

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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by chm on Sunday July 12, 2015 @11:40PM (#9876253)

If you want to do this on a Mac you can use software such as Little Snitch. Create a rule prohibiting Skype to connect to apps.skype.com.

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