Released on: July 3, 2008, 7:38 am

Press Release Author: Steven JF He

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: Rising Virus Lab announces a virus alarm to all cyber
citizens, regarding an Adobe vulnerability and presents the latest update of Rising
Application Protection that covers all known vulnerabilities including the Adobe
one.

Press Release Body: Jun 26, 2008

Rising Virus Lab announces a virus alarm to all cyber citizens: there is a serious
vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player plug in for Internet Explorer and a Trojan that
exploits this vulnerability has already been detected. Ma Jie, an expert of Rising
Security, says that "the old versions of Flash Active (Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0
and earlier versions) contain this vulnerability, and now Adobe is providing the
Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124 version to protect against it. They also suggest Adobe
users to update as soon as possible to the latest version that may be downloaded
from this link:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/flash/trigger/en/1/index.Html.

Until now, Rising has intercepted and captured several samples of Trojans aiming at
this vulnerability, being the first to update the Antivirus Library. According to
the analysis made by Rising Technology Department, the recent virus sample is a
Trojan Downloader. These sorts of viruses can download a variety of information from
users' computers, stealing popular online games accounts and equipments.

Rising security experts have suggested that Rising undertake emergency actions to
protect its users against the Flash Account Stealing Trojan and now, the latest
version of Rising Antivirus software can handle this issue. Moreover, computer users
can protect their online game accounts and online bank account information, by
safekeeping it in Rising Application Protection, thus being protected against the
Trojan.

Rising Application Protection is a powerful and helpful module, part of Rising
Anti-virus software; it is based on Smart Active Defense Technology and can protect
your private account information against threats.

Using Rising Application Protection 2.0(RAP 2.0), the updated version of the
software offered by Rising, user account information is protected against all known
threats. This solution is using Rising Virus Auto Analysis System, which can check
10 thousands of account stealing viruses. Together with Smart Active Defense
Technology, that checks every webpage and software you use in real time, Rising
Application Protection 2.0 can provide you a safe box for all your Internet
accounts.

Rising Application Protection is a part of Rising Anti-virus software; please check
out download.rising-global.com to find out more details. On this page, you can
download Rising Anti-virus software trial version, Rising Home & Home Office
edition, as well as other editions of the software provided by Rising. Also, you can
download or browse online the documentation about Rising Antivirus software.

About Rising International Software
Rising International Software was established in April 1998. Its predecessor,
established in 1991, is Beijing Rising Computer Technology Development Department.
RISING is one of the earliest enterprises engaged in computer virus prevention in
the world. RISING is dedicated to the research, development, production and sale of
computer antivirus products, network security products, and anti-hacker products.
RISING possesses all the intellectual property rights and a number of patented
technologies for all the products.




Web Site: http://www.rising-global.com/

Contact Details: Contact:
Rising Antivirus International Pty Ltd
Unit 6B, 1A Hale St,
Botany NSW 2019
Australia
Website: http://www.rising-global.com
Support centre:http://support.rising-global.com