Macromedia was recently informed of a potential issue with the standalone Macromedia Flash Player running on Microsoft Windows. This issue does not affect web content viewed in a browser. After testing by both Macromedia and Sophos Anti- virus, the company who initially reported this potential issue, Macromedia has found that this issue can only affect content that is sent via email or downloaded from a site and then run outside a browser. In either case, the content must be run in a Macromedia stand-alone Flash Player or associated Projector executable to represent a risk. This player is not installed by any browser installation, and is only installed with the Macromedia Flash authoring product. Macromedia appreciates the work of Sophos in reporting this potential issue, and will be issuing a patch later this week; a fix will also be included in future versions of the product. For more information on the patch please visit: http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/. Macromedia will continue to take potential security issues very seriously. Security issues concering the Macromedia Flash player may be mailed to flashplayer_security@macromedia.com. Pete Santangeli, Vice President of Engineering, Macromedia Inc.
