The real attack is via Adobe Flash. The image thing is only to get past some virus scanners.
There have been so many vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash one has to wonder if they're deliberate. It's not a large body of code, after all.
There have been so many vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash one has to wonder if they're deliberate. It's not a large body of code, after all.
The Flash runtime is big, the API surface is huge and Adobe doesn't feel like it pours a lot of resources into maintenance today. The tech was nice but it should be banned from browsers today.
Oh, of course it is. A complete scripting runtime engine (ActionScript), support for a boatload of video streaming formats including realtime communication, ...
Firefox clocks in at a healthy ~50 MB, as does Google Chrome, for the offline installers - Chrome expands to ~360MB app size, and Firefox to ~180MB (both current versions on OS X 10.11). I won't even get started on the RAM usage - a typical 10-tab session can easily munch happily through 4 GB RAM and more (especially when there are lots of ads).
It's a pity that a 3-year-old netbook (or cellphone) is basically unusable because browsers creep up so much in featuritis :(
Thank goodness that nightmare is over.