Are we really to blame macromedia for this? Macromedia has made a beautiful piece of software (aka Flash 5) and it has excelled in the way of multimedia for the internet. Was their a big snarl at Adobe when PDF virii came out? I dont know. The reason SWF is now used is because it is yet another way to get a virus across onto another machine for whatever purposes the designer anticipated. SWF is viewed by about 97%. ActiveX and Java were first under the "security" threat and most anti-virus software protect. Will they "protect" shockwave and watch yet another format go down the same way the other two did? Wait and see.

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