New Version of Chrome Sandboxes Flash
Flash is often the villain in any tale of technological woe. It eats battery, hogs resources, and can even make your system vulnerable to malware. Well, the new version of Chrome can at least address that last issue. The version of Chrome for Windows that was just pushed to the beta channel sandboxes Flash and other plug-ins so they are less able to harm your system. Any malicious code will be unable to spread beyond the tab it enters through.
Google has been talking about making this change for months now. Google recognizes that plug-ins are a real security threat, and if Chrome is to keep accumulating market share, they need to address it. Chrome will now keep Flash up to date in the background in the same way the browser itself is kept updated.
Flash might not be perfect, but we support any effort to make it safer. What's your impression of Flash and Adobe's commitment to security these days?

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Sparx10
December 17, 2010 at 7:08pm
This will only protect temporarily of course, it will only take a little while before they can get around this Flash sandbox, just like todays keyloggers and trojans that have anti-sandboxie and anti-VMware capabilities :|
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Belboz99
December 17, 2010 at 5:40pm
I checked out the "improved" MySpace yesterday, only looked at one profile, a paid currator no-less, and was infected with a javascript virus that installed System Tool 2011 behind my back.
Hopefully, sandboxing java might help with this...
And, in regards to the spammers, how about a bunch of us on MaxPC utilize the power that is the DDOS attack on their websites?
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Balgaroo
December 17, 2010 at 4:34am
I use Chrome and I use a Flashblock extension that is available for it. It is the most wonderful addon that Ive ever used. I never have to worry about adds yelling at me that "I've won" or even a hidden video that I can not close while watching streams online.
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MRrelabled
December 17, 2010 at 1:09am
Yeah I'd say the comments board is crap, the forms don't seem to have the spam problem. Or maybe just cut backs on web admins.
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arosadler
December 16, 2010 at 10:24pm
3 comments out of 17 that aren't spam. It's almost like somebody's got something against MPC. It's time to nuke the comments section and start over. Captcha is obviously useless. There is a special place in Hell reserved for Spammers, pedophiles, and people who talk during movies.
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camskip
December 16, 2010 at 9:40pm
These spammers are really starting to piss me off! MPC, your web personnel need to find a way to remove these spam "comments"
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WaterRabbit
December 16, 2010 at 10:25pm
People put a lot of work into the articles in MaximumPC and any loser that defaces their work with spam should be banned from this site, ID them with their PC address and soon they will run out of PCs to post this trash with. Thank You MaximumPC for a great magazine and thanks to all people that post real comments.
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guatemario
December 16, 2010 at 8:36pm
Or at least can you let the reader community flag or delete these posts ourselves? Thank you! In the meantime stop asking for comments...
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994196003
December 16, 2010 at 8:22pm
looks like a lot of sales are going on below, mabey max pc could get a spam filter for cheap?
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