Why Adobe 64 Flashutil is listed as a process in my task with Windows 7 and IE 11 Manager utility

Why Adobe 64 Flashutil is listed as a process in my task manager utility with Windows 7 and IE 11?    What is and what is its role?

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TomS

It's an artifact of sandboxing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox _ (computer_security)).   The part of Flash Player dealing with untrusted content on the web is running as a low integrity process.  When Flash Player needs more privileges on the system, there is a much smaller medium integrity process called the broker who made these requests on behalf of the low integrity process.  It is a defense in depth mechanism to make it more difficult for an attacker to exploit a crash in a way that allows them to control the larger system.

Tags: Flash Player

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