Yep. The only time I ever had a malware-infected computer it was one of those drive-bys. You didn't even have to click through the link to the site advertised at all, the browser would just go ahead and start prefetching it, so in case you did, it would seem quicker. And meanwhile the Adobe plugin would just happily start executing whatever code came from it.
I had to thoroughly wipe my computer and the computers of two others that fell to the same malicious ads.
Now ublock origin is standard and no Adobe products are allowed.