How to purge your Mac of Adobe Flash

Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered that a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe's Flash Player not only works on Windows, but OS X too. Sure, there's a patch, but chances are that most users don't need Flash Player anymore, so there's never been a better time to get rid of it.

Don't worry, it's quick and easy to get rid of Adobe Flash Player.

• Fire up Finder and navigate to the Utilities folder

• Locate Adobe Flash Player Install Manager and double-click on it to run it (if you can't find it, then you don't have Adobe Flash Player installed -- although you might want to type the name into the search box to make doubly sure)
• Click Uninstall

• OS X will ask you to confirm the uninstallation of Flash Player by entering your login password
• When you see the following, Click Done to finish!

If you need Flash Player for a particular website, then the simplest and safest method of achieving this is to download and install the Google Chrome browser. This browser comes with a built-in copy of Flash Player that's sandboxed from the rest of the operating system, and it is regularly updated.

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