Flashback was first discovered in September, disguising itself as an Adobe Flash Player installer.
The company has already found several Russian websites and one English site offering fake Adobe Flash Player downloads.
For added security, the patch also disables versions of Adobe Flash Player that do not include the latest security updates, and encourages users to get the latest version directly from Adobe's website.
Adobe has just released a security update for Flash Player 11.2.202.233 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, Adobe Flash Player 11.1.115.7 and earlier versions for Android 4.x, and Adobe Flash Player 11.1.111.8 and earlier versions for Android 3.x and 2.x.
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However, pressure from UK "strategic partners" have made Adobe make the Flash Player available again.
In early August, Adobe said its Flash Player plug-in for Android was being removed because development of the code had been halted.
They pointedly noted that Adobe's Flash media player will be integrated into the system's Web browser.
Adobe also announced that Flash Player 10.1 was downloaded more than two million times from Android Market.
Some users have asked why the BBC doesn't use an HTML 5 video player instead of Adobe Flash.
Adobe Flash Access 3.0, a robust content protection and monetization solution, will enable content owners to deliver on-demand content with massive scale and strict studio-level security across a broad range of devices, following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR(R) 3.
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If you keep getting told to install Flash or your video player is not playing, you may need to uninstall Adobe Flash properly before reinstalling it again.
Under the hood there's a 240Mhz ARM processor, which has DSP and Java acceleration built in, and 16MB of SRAM, expandable to 128MB, giving the player enough juice to run Adobe Flash and Java apps with future firmware upgrades.
Adobe has overturned a decision to remove its Flash media player from Google's Android app store.
The Flash player is the most widely available software on Earth, according to Adobe.
As part of the Open Screen Project, which should be getting Adobe Flash onto many new platforms, Adobe, NVIDIA and Broadcom are all hard at work getting GPU acceleration to do what it ought for Flash Player, with improvements in store for everything from Tegra MIDs to Broadcom Crystal HD netbooks (like HP's new Mini 110XP, pictured) to tablets and beyond.
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