Flash was a security nightmare in its prime. How do I know this? I got ransomware on my dad's laptop because of a banner ad on YouTube. I never clicked it, simply having it loaded in the background was enough to deliver its payload. This would have been around 2010.

Thankfully, the ransomware was nowhere near as advanced as today, so we were able to remove it by toying around with Windows' shutdown process.

Flash was a security nightmare in its prime. How do I know this? I got ransomware on my dad's laptop because of a banner ad on YouTube. I never clicked it, simply having it loaded in the background was enough to deliver its payload. This would have been around 2010.

Thankfully, ransomware was nowhere near as advanced as today, so we were able to remove it by toying around with Windows' shutdown process.