Adobe Flash

[hickoryshirt]

Perhaps this has already been discussed but I couldn't find a thread. When I download Adobe Flash Player the latest 64 bit version it installs as Macromedia shockwave player. Why? When I go to one particular site to design a new image for my credit card it says I need to install Abobe flash. No matter what I do I cannot install Adobe flash. I have totally uninstalled shockwave player with the player uninstall tool. Removed the plugin from Palemoon from the windows sys wow files etc . But reinstalling Adobe flash puts it all back there.

[access2godzilla]

Install it from here:
https://www.adobe.com/products/flashpla ... tion3.html

[hickoryshirt]

Thanks so much. I will try that.

Jim

[Daikun]

Macromedia Shockwave and Adobe Flash are the same thing. Adobe acquired Macromedia years ago.

[Night Wing]

Just a reminder. The new Flash Player version is out today (13.0.0.182).

http://www.adobe.com/

I had to update Flash on all 4 of my computers for Windows 7.

[Night Wing]

Another version of Flash is out. It's version 13.0.0.206 so I guess Adobe had a problem with the previous version since the previous version was released 3 weeks ago.

[satrow]

Possibly in reaction to this: http://www.fireeye.com/blog/uncategoriz ... tacks.html where disabling Flash ActiveX is reported to foil the exploit.

I don't see any release notes yet, though.

[hickoryshirt]

Even using the link you supplied it still installs Macromedia flash for Pale Moon. Firefox installs Adobe flash player. I realize that Adobe bought out Macromedia by why would Pale Moon opt for it? Seems Odd. Regardless it is now working.

Jim

[tribaljet]

Also, this new update is supposed to fix a random temporary .flv freezing that happened on 13.0.0.182.

[satrow]

The Flash update doesn't fix the exploit MS are trying to scare XP users with it fixes some reported by Kaspersky: http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/8212/ ... le_attacks

There could be another update in a few days ... for Flash ActiveX users, at least.

[Night Wing]

There could be another update in a few days ... for Flash ActiveX users, at least.

Since I have Internet Explorer 9 installed in Windows 7 on all four of my computers, I'll have to be on the look out for this next version concerning ActiveX. I don't really use Internet Explorer, but I like to keep my programs up to date.

[satrow]

Further digging:

Note that the bug isn't in Flash, so this is not something Adobe can fix, nor its it Adobe's fault.

^ and the easy 'fixes': http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/04 ... +Sophos%29

[Corrine]

There could be another update in a few days ... for Flash ActiveX users, at least.

An ActiveX update was included in the Flash Player update released yesterday. The Flash Player update was for CVE-2014-0515. The updated needed for the IE zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2014-1776) has to be made by Microsoft, not Adobe Flash Player.

As to obtaining Flash Player updates, to avoid unwanted extras, I recommend using the direct download links:

Non-IE (Opera, Firefox, Etc.): http://download.macromedia.com/get/flas ... plugin.exe
Windows XP, Vista and 7: Flash Player For Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, 10, 11: http://download.macromedia.com/get/flas ... tive_x.exe
Windows 8 and 8.1: Flash Player for Internet Explorer 10 and 11: Microsoft updated Security Advisory 2755801.

Since I have Internet Explorer 9 installed in Windows 7 on all four of my computers, I'll have to be on the look out for this next version concerning ActiveX. I don't really use Internet Explorer, but I like to keep my programs up to date.

If you like to keep your programs up to date, why haven't you updated IE to Internet Explorer 11?

[Night Wing]

Since I have Internet Explorer 9 installed in Windows 7 on all four of my computers, I'll have to be on the look out for this next version concerning ActiveX. I don't really use Internet Explorer, but I like to keep my programs up to date.

If you like to keep your programs up to date, why haven't you updated IE to Internet Explorer 11?

Internet Explorer 10 was released for Windows 8 and then Internet Exlorer 11 was released for Windows (8.1).

The problem was, when Microsoft sent me the update for Internet Explorer 10, it also included the binary platform update whose number is KB 2670838. One of my desktop tower computers didn't like Internet Explorer 10 since the drop down menus didn't work for File, Edit, View, Favorites, and Help.

When I tried to revert back to Internet Explorer 9, it wouldn't revert. All I got for 2 hours of time was the blue colored screen which said, "Please don't turn off your computer, etc". After waiting for 2 hours, I did a hard shut down on the desktop computer. This basically corrupted the Windows Updater. In other words, I could never install any Microsoft updates after this incident.

I had to wipe my hard drive and then re-install Windows 7, re-did my computer settings, do all the security updates except this time when it came to the updates for KB 2670838, Internet Explorer 10 & 11, I hid those updates. I hid the Bing desktop updates too. Re-installed all of my Windows programs I use which also included those program's files . Total time wasted to re-do the computer, 4 hours.

As far as I'm concerned; Internet Explorer 10, 11 and that KB 2670838 update were made specifically designed for Windows 8/8.1 and then back ported back to Windows 7.

When all is said and done, I wasn't going to make the same mistake twice with these updates and none of these updates are on any of my four computers which have Windows 7 on them.

[Night Wing]

Flash has updated to a new version number: 13.0.0.214

[sIDcORK]

The ESR version of Flash is version 13 as of today https://forums.adobe.com/thread/889580

[satrow]

The ESR version of Flash is version 13 as of today https://forums.adobe.com/thread/889580

... if you encounter difficulties and require the 11.7 release, here are direct links to the installers.

And the direct links are to Flash 13 ... nice work, Adobe.

[Moonchild]

I'm not going to use Flash 13. screw that.

[KNTRO]

For the record, I've been using Shumway as an Adobe Flash Player replacement since it's released. I must say it's not as wonderful as I first thought but it's HTML5 software libre & opensourced technology at least and I'll always love to give a shot to this kinda stuff before tryin' scary, buggy plugins.

[Moonchild]

Unfortunately html5 shims are always going to be severely lacking - there have been several different efforts to make replacements this way so far, and the problem is that Adobe Flash is closed source, so you can simulate from scratch only (reverse-engineering is normally also strictly forbidden for that type of software) by writing a brand new interpreter for the one thing you have: flash coding.

What the web really needs to move forward is something new that doesn't try to emulate the flash plugin. I think the pivotal tool to have there would be a (very) user-friendly editor to create content in the new method, and not just work on a plugin to display it.