It has been a busy week for Adobe, which began shipping its Adobe Creative Suite 4 and also released its new Flash Player 10.

The long-awaited updated player is expected to, in the company’s words, provide a "game-changing visual experiences on the Web." Developers will now be able to use 3D effects, use on any of their activities the print-quality text layout engine and enhanced drawing and sound APIs and also create custom graphic filters and effects.

Adobe’s spokesman David Lenoe, explained in a blog post that the new Flash Player 10 software was designed to fix several security flaws in Adobe's multimedia software, including one that hackers could have used to complete a clickjacking attack, a bug rated as ‘critical’ by the company. The flaw is used by hackers to take control of a PC through the links clicked by the victim, and can be used to delete blog pages, execute online stock trades, change a firewall configuration, force users to download certain software, create new Web mail accounts or change a router configuration.

"It's almost impossible for a user to determine what's going to happen when they click on a link," said security researcher Robert Hansen, who is also the CEO of SecTheory.org. He added that the best possible solution to the problem is to change the way browsers work and because browser makers understand the problem, there are many efforts made these days looking to find the best possible way of avoiding such issues in the future.