Suspected malware in the form of Adobe Flash Player install crib

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• How can I find the version of Adobe Flash Player installed on my Mac

  1. How can I find the version of Adobe Flash Player installed on my Mac?  I'm on OS 10.11.5 and Safari 9.1.1.
  2. How can I determine if I need to update Adobe Flash Player

  There are several different methods to check which version is installed, two of them are:

  Option 1:

  • Go to System Preferences > Flash Player > Updates tab.  There are 2 variants of Flash Player on Mac, NPAPI for Safari and Firefox and PPAPI for opera and Chrome browsers, and both appear in the tab "Updates".
  • If Flash Player is installed the version installed is listed here.  If there is a version that is listed, click the check now button and Flash Player will check for an update.  If an update is available, a notification dialog box appears.
  • If there is not a version listed, Flash Player is not installed.  Click Install now to start the browser to the download page.  Download and install Flash Player.

  Option 2:

  • Launch the browser and go to https://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about.
    • If Flash Player is not installed, a "plugin missing" message appears when the Flash content should display.
      • Click on the "plugin missing" text and a window placard showing Flash Player is required poster.
      • Click more info to be directly to the download page to download and install Flash Player
    • If a previous version of Flash Player is detected and blocked by Safari, click on the "Outdated Flash" text and displays a windows Flash is obsolete screens.  Click on download Flash... button to be redirected to the download page to download and install the latest version.

• How to upgrade the version of Adobe Flash Player on my new Samsung Smart TV

  How to upgrade the version of Adobe Flash Player on my new Samsung Smart TV?

  I just bought a Samsung Smart TV. When I try to watch ESPN3, I get the message: insufficient Flash drive requirements.

  Click to update provides the following information:

  Adobe Flash Player version 11.2.202.243.

  Your system: 32-bit Linux, Safari.

  NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version of target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide backports of security Flash Player for Linux 11.2.

  Select Version to download:

  YUM for Linux (YUM)

  . for other Linux tar.gz

  for other Linux .rpm

  APT for UBUNTU 10.4.

  When I select the first 3 options of Linux, I get the message: IMPOSSIBLE TO DOWNLOAD.  When I select APT, I get the message SERVER NOT FOUND.

  Hello

  As I mentioned earlier in this thread (15,17 and 37 positions), doesn't matter which drive Flash updates for Smart TV, if any, would come from the manufacturer, Adobe and certainly not some random site asking you to fill out a questionnaire before give you a file.  Please contact your support of manufacturer of Smart TVs.

  Please, please, please, do NOT go to some random website that asks you to fill out a questionnaire to get a file.  If you happen to get a file, it will likely contain a virus, malware, etc..  Adobe, or any legitimate manufacture, will display a file on some random site and ask you to complete the questionnaire in order to obtain the file.  It just opens your system to all kinds of bad things.  Please do not.

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  Maria

• Cannot install the update for adobe flash player

  I'm not able to install the update for adobe flash player on my MacBook Pro running Yosemite.  I can access adobe flash player if Opera but not able to access it via Safari.  Any suggestions?

  Thank you very much!

  Have you checked to see if it is compatible with or intended for El Capitan Yosemite?

• Possible malware on Mac - is Adobe Flash Player install Manager application legitimate?

  I have a macbook pro and I am running 10.10 OS. My browser is Safari 9.1.

  Flash player NPAPI plugin version 21.0.0.242 is installed.

  Flash PPAPI plugin player - is not installed.

  Protection service 5/7/16-a identity to which I am subscribed sent a message saying that my Adobe password has been hacked. I changed the password.

  05/15/16, 1 AM-while you browse using Safari a popup appears saying that it needed to update my flash player. (Stupidly), I clicked on "OK".  The window asked if I wanted to install the MacGuard, MacSecurity and another application. I clicked on 'no' to each, then "continue." He then asked my administrator password to install Flash Player. Well I type the password, and I closed the window we'd send her to install some files which warned me that something was wrong. At the end of the installation has changed my Yahoo homepage. I ran Malwarebytes. Malewarebytes identified some suspicious files which I deleted. Then I restarted my computer. 

  I just noticed a file in my Utilities folder called Adobe Flash Player install Manager. It was created on 09/05/2016 and changed 12/05/2016. I don't remember installing this application. Also, I have "notify me to install updates" and I don't remember notification.  Is Adobe Flash Player install handle (located in the folder Utilities-see below) an application legitimate or should I delete it? When I impulsively tried to remove a few minutes ago, asked me my admin password. Before we continue I hope get some forum members advice. It belongs in the utility folder or do I have to remove it using my Admin password?

  

  Thanks a lot for any assistance.

  Hello

  Unfortunately, it does not appear you have received a notification of update of Flash Player false as MacGuard MacSecurity not the third-party products available for installation of Flash Player and the official Flash Player installer modifies not the browser's default homepage or the favorite search engine.

  The official Flash Player installer has an application called Adobe Flash Player install by in the utilities directory, however, at this stage, it is difficult, at best, to know if this file was created with the Flash Player installer legitimate or not.

  I have recommended to perform a clean uninstall.  See the FAQ How to perform a "clean installation" of Flash Player in Mac OS X for orientation.

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  Maria

• Anyone know how to change the password for the installation of Adobe Flash Player?

  Anyone know how to change the password for the installation of Adobe Flash Player? I have tried everything that I usually use and nothing works. My Adobe ID password works perfectly. I can't complete the installation without this, and it doesn't have a 'forgotten password' button to change it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  Thank you

  There is no password required for the installation of Flash Player, at least not on the side of the things Adobe.  It's probably the security of your computer, forcing you to you connect allowing the installation to occur.  Only you would know what would be the connection for this information.

• Differnce in two forms of Adobe Flash Player 11.8?

  What is the diference between Adobe Flash Player 11.8 & Adobe Flash Player 11.8 beta?

  Also, we publish the weekly ads on the Beta forum with a description of the changes:

  http://forums.Adobe.com/community/Labs/flashruntimes/flashplayer#

  If you subscribe to the page by clicking on notifications by E-mail in the right column, you will get an email when a new ad is posted.

  Right now we are in a rather boring part of the cycle, but things pick up in the coming weeks.

• What is my password to install adobe flash player install 14 identical to my adobe password?

  is my password to install the same 14 adobe flash player adobe password?

  This password is presented by your operating system and is designed to prevent you from accidentally installing the software.

  If it comes to your personal computer and you don't need a password to connect to the computer when it first starts, you can probably leave the password blank and click OK to go to this prompt.  If it comes to your personal computer and your normal password does not work, make sure that CAPS LOCK SHIFT is off, and then type the password carefully.

  If this is your work machine and he asks an administrator password, well, you will need to have a conversation with your computer friendly.

• Adobe Flash Player install/Uninstaller 11.2.r202 has encountered a problem and needs to close

  Seems that the 3 or 4 recent Flash Player updates, once the update is complete, but before the installer stops actually, I get a box of error message telling me that "Adobe Flash Player install/Uninstaller 11.2.r202 has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience. ', etc, etc, etc.  I received this error several times as most of the computers I work on Windows XP SP3 (all updates) with Internet Explorer 8 browser, including my own computer and my wife.  If I could copy/paste the details, I'd do it.  But is not the temporary file which is supposed to be created for purposes, error reporting, and I'm not going to spend the next half hour to transcribe all the technical details.  I just want you to know, that there is a problem with your Installer.       -kd5150-

  Today we released Flash Player 11.3.300.270 to answer specifically the collapse of the FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe.  See the announcement post for more details and links to installers:

  02/08/2012 - Player 11.3 update Flash

  We would like to thank all those who helped us to troubleshoot and debug this issue.  I'm sorry you had to go through this, but glad it is now resolved.

  Thank you

  Chris

• How to Flash manually to some Adobe Flash Player install manager wants to do?

  I get periodic signs of "Adobe Flash Player install Manager" telling me that there is a Flash update, but until now I could not decipher if it is

  (a) a real upgrade of adobe rather than a horse of Troy of God-only-knows-who.

  (b) if it is a real upgrade, what will be the version after installation, so that I can decide if I want to install it or not;

  (c) if I don't want to install it, how to get this version and install it manually

  This is what looks like the Panel:

  

  By pushing the «See details...» "link takes me to the page basically useless http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/releasenotes .html #p10 which anyone can write a link to and no indication of what might actually be downloaded and installed and where it would come from.

  If I have a url which is on adobe.com and has a file that I can download and install - and I can see for myself that it'S from the adobe.com site - then I will download and install it.  But I sure as hell won't push the button 'INSTALL' and put in a name of user and password administrator on some random Panel of unknown origin that appears on my computer!

  http://www.Adobe.com/software/Flash/about/

  Where can I find direct downloads of Flash Player 11 for Windows or Macintosh?

• Hello I have Adobe Flash Player installed but do not allow it.

  Hello I have Adobe Flash Player installed but do not allow it.

  NPAPI is installed on my Mac but I can't activate it - is there an Adobe customer service number, I can call

• My MacBook Pro does not allow the installation of Adobe Flash Player?

  The process goes into installed as needed, but at the end a Setup error comes in effete on-screen with a finish?

  How you install?

  Where did you downloaded it? Of the Adobe site?

  Of the Adobe site?

  Maybe this will help you:

  Adobe Flash Player available for OS X on June 20, 2016 - Apple Support

• Layout error for Sony Picture Package even after the installation of Adobe Flash Player.

  When trying to open Sony Picture Package-message says need to install Macromedia Flash Player.  After you download Adobe Flash Player - always get the same message.

  That you ask for help from Sony at http://www.sony.com/index.php or Adobe http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/414/tn_4149.html and http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/

• Help with the help of Adobe Flash Player

  I downloaded Adobe Flash Player as 3 x "s, but I still can't use it." I went to programs and other places in the computer, but still can't Adobe anywhere. I tried to watch videos and other things, and he always says that I need to download the Adobe Flash Player. I don't know if it's important, but I have Windows XP. Please, if anyone has any ideas of things I could try, I would REALLY appreciate it. Thank you very much! You can me @ e-mail
  (removed for security reasons)

  I highly recommend you post the same question on Adobe Flash Player Forums: http://forums.adobe.com/community/flashplayer

  You could also try the Adobe Flash Player support site: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html

• Problem in the installation of adobe flash player.

  Greetings guys,

  I have to install activex Adobe flash player 22 in my pc, so an exe will work correctly, but it tells me this:

  http://prntscr.com/caokkq

  * BTW I have to install for this Baffler Standalone | Cheese for mouse Forum *.

  Could you help me? It says its already installed but it does not work well

  Thank you!

  From Windows 8, Microsoft integrates Flash Player in IE and Edge (WIn10).  The ActiveX EXE or installers MSI DO NOT work on these operating systems.

  Given that Microsoft integrates Flash Player, all updates are published by Microsoft via Windows Update.  Make sure you have the latest update installed.  Microsoft security bulletins lists the various security updates.  I don't see a separate item of Flash Player, as they have for July August update.  Most likely, it is included in the cumulative update for IE/Edge.

  The following 2 FAQ may be useful:

  • Adobe Flash Player with Windows 10 questions (Microsoft Edge)
  • Flash Player issues. Windows 10 | Internet Explorer

  Also ensure you have the latest audio and video device drivers installed.