Another increasingly popular target for malicious hackers is Adobe Shockwave. But what is Shockwave, and how does it related to Adobe Flash?

Like Flash, Shockwave is a media platform, and Shockwave media is most commonly found on the web. The two platforms do many of the same things, but the software for creating Shockwave media is both more powerful and more expensive. Flash media is much more common.

In any case, since Shockwave is a target, and since the Shockwave player is commonly installed on the computers of regular users (usually in the form of a browser plugin), I’m adding it to the Software Versions page on this web site.

Update 2014May22: Now comes word that Shockwave contains a version of the Flash player that is over a year out of date. None of the security updates and features added to Flash in the past fifteen months are present in Shockwave’s bundled Flash. Because of this, we recommend disabling Shockwave in your web browser immediately.