Really laggy PC

[hey]

Im having a similar sort of problem, I have Windows installed on to my SSD and after 5-20 minuets after booting up my PC will start to be really laggy even on the desktop and programs wont open or respond if they are on the C drive, but if i have a program open from my D drive, mumble for example, it will work perfectly fine even though i cant do anything on windows, i can still move my mouse around and things but i cant open up any windows or anything.

Help :S

Sounds like the drive is dying.

[Deadgye]

Considering the rather dangerous vulnerabilities having an outdated version of flash tend to expose you to, I'd have to disagree.

You very strongly overestimate the vulnerability of not updating flash.

[Stromgarde]

http://arstechnica.com/security/2009...oited-in-pdfs/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2010...ng-the-rounds/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012...ash-ms-office/

mmhmm.

[hey]

he attacks are delivered in a malicious Microsoft Word document that exploits the ActiveX version of Flash Player for Internet Explorer on Windows.

Adobe released Acrobat 9 last year, the company introduced support for embedding Flash media in PDF files. This feature is now being used by attackers who are exploiting a new vulnerability in Adobe's Flash media plugin.

Well hell, i better go update flash.

[Deadgye]

http://arstechnica.com/security/2009...oited-in-pdfs/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2010...ng-the-rounds/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012...ash-ms-office/

mmhmm.

You are bad at providing a convincing argument. Very good at misinterpreting my point though. I was originally talking specifically about the last couple versions of flash which don't really have much in the way of security fixes, if any at all.

Keeping up to date with flash usually makes you more vulnerable than you would be otherwise since it's so horrible. You provided a day zero exploit for me so we'll use that as an example. Probably best to stay at least one version behind unless there's an important security fix.

[hey]

Keeping up to date with flash usually makes you more vulnerable than you would be otherwise since it's so horrible. You provided a day zero exploit for me so we'll use that as an example. Probably best to stay at least one version behind unless there's an important security fix.

Well this is obviously not true. It's not really a problem if you don't always keep it up to date though.

[Deadgye]

I think that's what I was trying to say. I hate flash though, so I probably went overboard. :3

[Stromgarde]

I don't think that anyone ever actually liked flash, it just became ubiquitous as a means of presenting content identically across platforms and browsers. With recent trends towards widespread standards adoption and HTML5's addition of a video element, Flash looks about ready to be put out to pasture anyway. Adobe is even creating a new tool (Adobe Edge which relies on HTML5 elements to create a timeline enviroment. If only they could get that pesky video codec problem solved...