10,000,000 and counting update to secure version of Flash

Last week Ken Kovash, Mozilla’s manager of metrics, wrote a blog post on Mozilla’s metrics blog analyzing the results of Mozilla’s campaign to warn users if their version of Adobe Flash is out of date. Ken noted that in just one week 10,000,000 people have clicked on the “flash update” link below.

Sean Michael Kerner from Internet News helps put that number into perspective. He says, “That potentially means that 10 million people were running older out-of-date and insecure versions of Flash. It means that despite Adobe’s own efforts to get people to update with their own update mechanisms and public outreach that 10 million people were still left out of the loop.”

Mitchell Baker and Johnathan Nightingale also commented on the success of the effort in blog posts last week.

ComputerWorld’s Gregg Keizer includes comments from Adobe in his article, “Adobe on Thursday confirmed a spike in traffic to its Flash Player update page, and applauded Mozilla’s move. ‘For us, anything that others do to help users stay up-to-date is a good thing,’ said Brad Arkin, Adobe’s director for product security and privacy. ‘We’re glad to see Mozilla doing this.’”

Additional coverage includes GHacks, Download Squad, Geek.com, SC Magazine and InformationWeek and Heise.

10,000,000 and counting update to secure version of Flash