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From EP: New Adobe Flash Player security updates have been posted in Adobe security bulletin APSB16-37: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flas
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It appears that an updated version 11 has been released.
https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html

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Huh? Wait a minute… Just last week someone said we would be safe if we installed the latest Adobe Flash patches… Am I to understand a week later we’re unsafe again? Flash will Never be secure… Sooo funny…

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Flash patches fall like rain from the heavens….

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I can tell you that if you use recommendations in Steps 3 and 4 from here, which a lot of people use, you have a broken browser.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/4-simple-changes-protect-your-privacy-online

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Funny, but Flash is still a necessary evil, at least on few mainstream sites, like Java.

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All browsers or just certain ones?

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I only know about Firefox.

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@ch100…

This has me a bit confused ch, and it may very well be confusing to others also, so please clarify.

Does this post have anything AT ALL to do with the title of this thread which is “New Adobe Flash Player updates”?

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If you don’t want to go through https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ (unticking all that google bloatware crap etc.)

(Firefox/Opera/Safari)
http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/23.0.0.207/install_flash_player.exe

(Internet Explorer)
http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/23.0.0.207/install_flash_player_ax.exe

[Uninstaller]
https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/support/uninstall_flash_player.exe

I prefer manual install with no update check since it’ll constantly have adobe update arm .exe thing running in the background.

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I always download from here

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_ax.exe
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player.exe
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_ppapi.exe

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@Ed I think it was posted in the wrong thread, either by me or Woody, by mistake.
It was meant as a reply to someone who could not get updates from the Catalog with Firefox, while everyone else replying could.
I said that the person has a broken browser due to too much security probably and giving some common configuration examples which can break Firefox.
Sorry for the confusion!

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I use Flash with IE 11 and Windows 7.

I have never had an issue with getting my Flash updates from their https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer page,

but tonight I can’t get anything to download or install (at least properly… an empty file does download but doesn’t contain anything),

and I see on the Adobe Security Bulletin that Woody gave a link to (https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-37.html)
that this update is apparently only for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10?

It says:
“Adobe Flash Player for Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11
23.0.0.207
Windows 10 and 8.1”

I don’t see a mention of the Windows 7 platform using IE 11 anywhere in the bulletin.

Does anyone know — does this 23.0.0.207 Flash update definitely not apply to IE 11 on Windows 7, at least not at the present time?

Thanks.

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Probably a coincidence poohsticks but earlier this morning I couldn’t get any files to download either. From several different sites too I might add.

Alas the old “fix-all” worked once again though… after a restart of the computer every single file then downloaded fine.

Good luck… hope it works for you too!

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Ed, thank you for sharing your experience and positivity.

The next time I shut down and power on again, I’ll go back to the Adobe page to see if that does the trick.

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Is your operating system Windows 7? If so, does Adobe say somewhere that this update is appropriate for Windows 7?

I’m wondering why the Adobe bulletin did not mention Windows 7 as a relevant platform for this update.

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Just following up:
I was able to get it to install tonight.

I don’t normally read the Adobe bulletins, so I’m not sure if they regularly neglect to mention Windows 7 as a relevant platform, or not.

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Which one of these links is the one used for Firefox?

Thanks!

(Adobe got rid of their distribution page where I used to download from, so I’m glad to have a new option to download directly without all the crap!)

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Hi all,

My Secunia PSI seems to be automatically updating the Adobe Flash Player 23 NPAPI. It put V 23.0.0.207 on my machines on 11/8/2016.

It also updated Microsoft Office Professional 2013-en-us V 15.0.4875.1001 on 11/15/2016.

I didn’t look for these updates, Secunia handled them .

Chip

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The second one, per https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-windows.html (NB: For Win 7 and earlier).

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Thanks! Just saw your reply now.

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