On 12/24/2017 2:24 PM, Lee wrote: > On 12/24/17, David E. Ross <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/24/2017 12:39 PM, Lee wrote: >>> On 12/24/17, [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>> Enabled plugins are: >>>> * VLC Web Plugin >>>> * Adobe Acrobat >>>> * Java(TM) Playform SE 8 >>> >>> You're a braver man than I, Gunga Din. >>> >>> Have you seen https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102214/discuss >>> A remote attacker can exploit this issue to cause a >>> denial-of-service condition. Given the nature of this issue, attackers >>> may also be able to execute arbitrary code, but this has not been >>> confirmed. >>> >>> VideoLAN VLC version 2.2.8 and prior are vulnerable. >>> >>> Lee >>> >> >> Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64) >> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 >> SeaMonkey/2.49.1 > > do you have one account for managing the machine and another, regular > user account with no privs, for normal work?
No. I do everything from the same Windows account. Yes, I know that might be risky; but I have been a Windows user for over 20 years with only one instance of a problem. Also, until I retired, I was a software professional for 40+ years. >> I have Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat (the writer) both installed. >> However, I diabled the plugins. Instead, Ihave the PDF Viewer (pdf.js) >> extension from Github installed in SeaMonkey. This is included in >> current versions of "vanilla" Firefox. There is a bug in the PDF >> Viewer: printing a PDF file from a browser window, truncates text near >> the right margin. The only workaround is to download the PDF file onto >> my PC and then use Adobe Reader to print. >> >> I have Video LAN (VLC) installed, but I never saw a plugin. No such >> plugin appears either in the Plugins pane of Add-ons Manager or in the >> window for about:plugins. My settings for SeaMonkey cause VLC to launch >> as a process separate from SeaMonkey (as a helper application). > > You might want to look at https://nightlies.videolan.org/ > They're up to 3.0.0 release candidate 2 so it might be good enuf for regular > use > > Lee I will wait for the end-user release. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> President Trump: Please stop using Twitter. We need to hear your voice and see you talking. We need to know when your message is really your own and not your attorney's. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
