Adobe Flash patch KB 4074595 pushed out the Windows Update chute

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Doncha just love Flash? A few hours ago, Microsoft pushed the first round of February 2018 patches. The KB 4074595 patch fixes two security holes in A
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Adobe issued their Flash Security Bulletin and updates a couple of days ago (details listed in AKB1000002 post #165411).

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Don’t know where to put it:

http://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-agrees-to-ditch-aggressive-get-windows-10-style-pop-ups

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From that article:

More broadly, given all the negative feedback fired at the company over the whole GWX affair, it’s likely that Microsoft has very much learned its lesson anyway.

Sure, sure… the lesson they “very much learned” was that they can do whatever they want and still profit by it.  They most certainly gained more Windows 10 users (the goal of the campaign) than they would have without this aggressive push; did they have to give any of that up in any way?  Of course not… they get to keep the full benefit of having done what they did.  No one gets compensated for being upgraded against their will to a consumer-hostile OS that transfers control of your PC to Redmond; no one gets any assistance in undoing the damage.  The sole concession from MS was a promise not to do it again, which is pretty meaningless given that the campaign ended a year and a half ago.

This was a total win for Microsoft.  It would be like finding a bank robber to be guilty, but refusing to assign a penalty of any kind… not even a black mark on the robber’s record.  All he has to do is make a promise not to do it again.  Oh, and he gets to keep the money he stole.

I’m sure such a robber would have very much learned his lesson from that.

 

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I took Flash off my computers awhile back.  However, I recalled reading that some web sites automatically download Flash, so I installed FlashBlock Plus in Firefox.  That covers it, I hope.

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OK I know @radosuaf dropped the bomb, but this thread is about Adobe Flash patch KB 4074595, not the transgressions of Microsoft.

Please create a Topic in the Rant Forum – and I’m sure we will all add to it.

Let’s stay on topic

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When I replaced my hard drive and had Windows 7 reloaded back in November  I deceided not to install Flash.
Not missing it one bit.

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I had to totally disable flash in Pale Moon after this update was released the other day, I normally leave it set to ask to activate (Pale Moon 32 bit version 27.7.2 on Win 7 x64).

Every time the browser was launched multiple instances of flash showed up in task manager whether the website I was at had flash content or not causing the browser to be very-very sluggish. Also, after closing Pale Moon each & every time I had to end task on at least 8 instances of flash using task manager before Pale Moon would disappear from the list of running processes.

This problem has happened before and it magically healed itself after a few days although neither flash or Pale Moon updated during that time. I’ve searched both the Pale Moon and Flash support sites to see if others had experienced this problem but I’ve never seen anything reported. This doesn’t just happen on one of my computers either, it happens to all three of the computers here and also to a friend’s computer hundreds of miles away so I’m positive it isn’t something “local”.

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Just an update… it has”healed itself” once again! I re-enabled flash late last night and the issue still persisted so I disabled it again. A friend stopped by this morning that also runs Pale Moon and when I re-enabled flash to show him the problem I was experiencing the problem no longer existed.

Strange… but I gave up trying to figure out self-healing issues long ago. They can drive you crazier than attempting to avoid all of the MS dilemmas!

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For Ed, I began a story on disappearing problems. Decided it was off topic. But I did not want you to feel alone. Because that is how I feel when a troubleshoot reaches end without repairing anything. Hope it stays fixed this time.

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Chrome is getting really restrictive with Flash. Even if I go to the official Adobe site to check my version,  and click to enable Flash on the site, Chrome still decides that the Flash should not run. There is a choice to allow it to run “one time,” but that doesn’t actually work, since the page depends on Flash actually running.

For goodness sake, it’s on Adobe’s website. Surely Chrome should have a proper whitelist for that site. I just wanted to make sure my Flash was up-to-date, given that the most recent update mentioned nothing about updating Flash.

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