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.When Microsoft first included Flash in the operating system I thought it was a bad idea. Flash is/was often how attackers wiggled into systems. So i
[See the full post at: Patch Lady – I never thought Flash was a good idea]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Thank you for bring this to the attention of the AskWoody faithful.
If I had encountered this unexpectedly on my computer, I would have likely viewed it as a phishing attempt or some sort of malware and have been reluctant to click on the uninstall button. I have come to distrust anything “unrequested” that appears on my computer.
Additional references:
https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/about/ — blue band at the top; links to
https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html
https://www.askwoody.com/2020/say-goodnight-flash-we-hardly-knew-ye/
https://www.askwoody.com/2017/adobe-announces-the-end-of-flash-in-december-2020/
I uininstalled Flash many months ago. So why am I currently being offered a Flash update – KB4580325? Should I install this, or drop it on the floor?
Is it the same reason why I am also offered an update (KB4481252) for Silverlight, which was uninstalled even longer ago?
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit 20H2
When Microsoft first included Flash in the operating system I thought knew it was a bad idea. – Fixed that comment for my view.
Embedded flash was one of the things that put me off upgrading from Win7 back in the day.
A continuation of exploits was inevitable historically and integrating flash was, IMO, a sorry move for Win8-W10
Why oh why? I’ll certainly be glad to see the back of it anyway.
Wonder if it’s in 20H2 (v2009) or whatever they are calling it?
Since MS has tied Flash to Win8.1 and Win10 browsers through updates, I suspect the final update will remove it.
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/09/04/update-adobe-flash-end-support/
that’s the same method they used to kill remove Windows Journal with KB3161102
I agree Flash is a pain to deal with. I subscribe to COMCAST cable. On their main site, it has been necessary to have flash, or I could not see their news videos.
One day, when Flash on their site did not seem to be working, I thought it was because I had tweaked Flash on my computer. When I contacted COMCAST, they said that their entire site was messed up because Flash had “gone berserk.”
Adobe yesterday gave me the option to delete their version of Flash from my PC. There’s still a ‘Flash Player (32-bit)’ option in the Control Panel. How can all traces of Flash be safely nuked from the computer? Revo Uninstaller isn’t finding it. Thank you.
Adobe has a flash uninstaller :
https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/support/uninstall_flash_player.exe
I have found procedures that have very involved Registry hacks. But I really don’t wanna use one like this – https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-completely-uninstall-remove-adobe-flash-player-from-windows-10
I imagine I’m not the only person with this need. One of the posts I read mentioned that Internet Exploder 11 can be turned off via ‘Turn Windows features on or off”, and I turned IE 11 off, which was said to help in the decommissiong of Flash. But that didn’t nuke the Control Panel applet.
In a cursory Registry search I’m finding references to Shockwave, Macromedia, and ActiveX associated with Flash. There might be more. Rather than pulling out all the weeds one-by-one I’d rather have an ‘environmentally friendly herbicidal program’ someone wrote which will work for me 😉
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I had not noticed the applet in Control Panel, but it was there. When I clicked on it, I got a small window headed “Flash Player Settings Manager” (even though Flash was, I thought, thoroughly deleted). With that window open, I went to Process Explorer and found the entry. According to PE, the process name and command line was “C:\Windows\System32\FlashPlayerApp.exe”, but on searching in there, no such entry was found. However, PE also listed a Path of “C:\Windows\Syswow64\FlashPlayerApp.exe”, and on looking in there I found not only that file but also “FlashPlayer CPLApp.cpl”. I closed out and then deleted both files, whereupon the Control Panel applet was gone
Windows 10 Pro 64 bit 20H2
I think MS will remove the version of Flash that it has tied to its browsers and that it has installed through its updates.
However, I think the User may be responsible for removing any of the standalone versions that have been installed through Adobe or an outside third-party. For example the Active-X, NPAPI and PPAPI Plug-ins may need to be removed separately.
yup, you did your “Homer Simpson” impression, Bob99 🙂
XP/Vista/Win7 users can easily use the adobe flash un-installer to remove all traces of flash. and no Vista users are NOT out of luck as Flash v32 does work on Vista (with their last supported updates from 2017) and also can be removed there.
Hopefully, they’ll finish it in time,
They only had 3.5 years warning 🙄:
As previously announced in July 2017, Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player after December 31, 2020
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