We have recently had to install Flash Player in order to fix an issue with certain interactive items included with software not showing up because of the lack of a flash Plugin in IE.

This has been installed, enabled in IE and now the interactive items are showing up.

However now that the Shockwave Flash Object add-on is in IE, we are just wondering if this is a possible security issue that could make using IE unsafe, in terms of being vulnerable to malware or hacks etc.