sadly enough, tons of people are completely uneducated when it comes to tech and easily fall for it. Even seen some junior techs fall for (IMO) obvious scams similar to this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41740768

just seemed ironic that there's a flash thing in the page right beside them blaming flash for the spread

Wait, are you telling me that this is not legit?

I mean in all likelihood, their site links you to the real update and the update is not unsafe, but still, there's no reason for anyone to still have flash installed... it's not 2006.

me irl

Ik, I was joking.  We should just stop using flash altogether

But they gave me a $100 Visa gift card... ?