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Note - The title is misleading. It's a zero day vulnerability on all platforms, but the exploits hit XP Vista and W7. It's still prudent to kill Flash on all though.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/13/adobe_flash_0day_vul...

It is easy to turn off Flash in the Firefox plugins, and running the Better Privacy extension which kills the Flash hidden cookies normal cookie management doesn't touch. (One stalks you keeping track of every site you've visited with Flash) Better Privacy isn't yet compatible with the Firefox 4 beta but is fine with 3.x

NoScript is still a good idea for many reasons.

The malware is worse this year than last... http://www.gdatasoftware.co.uk/about-g-data/press-centre/new...