Adobe Community All Content. Im running Mac OS 1. Chrome 4. 3, Safari 8. I have Creative Cloud installed, and have Acrobat Pro, PS, Illustrator and some other tools installed. Recently updated those to CC 2. Flash Player is installed. Flash Player Help says that Ive got the latest on both Chrome and Safari. Should I remove Adobe Flash Player ActiveX by Adobe Systems The Adobe Flash Player ActiveX is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications, and. Which makes sense, as I had believed that Flash Player auto updates itself. I have consciously permitted it to auto update. But, I know that the Flash Player identity is often used to induce people to install software they shouldnt install. I had believed that most of those risks were related to web pages prompting downloads. Install Adobe Flash Player Activex Control' title='Install Adobe Flash Player Activex Control' />
And so, when a disk image recently appeared on my Mac, seemingly encouraging me to run the installer inside it, Im worried, because it doesnt fit what I had heard about either safe or explicitly unsafe options. The disk image mounted itself without any involvement from me I didnt request a download, and there were no dialogs asking if an update would be OK. Its called logically enough Flash Player, and contains a file called Install Adobe Flash Player. It first happened two weeks or so ago, and then again several days ago June 2. Windows 7 Norwegian Ultimate X64 Sp1 more. The first time, I simply closed the image. The second time, I grabbed a screen capture at the time of what appeared So, is this a legitimate pattern, to have a. When Flash Player says its going to auto update does that mean its just going to dump a disk image into my machine and wait for me to do the work Is this image possibly a side effect of a healthy, normal update, and it simply didnt clean up after itself
Last week, a hacked flash ad injected into online advertising enabled malware to attack systems just by visitors viewing the infected web page. Now, Im aware that there was recently a critical update to Flash Player. But, I seem to already have that latest, updated version already. Also, this first happened 2 weeks ago, then again. So, is this thing somehow part of the process of me getting normal updates, or. Since this is a community forum, Ill be explicit have you yourself, dear reader, seen this exact behavior, and do you know for a fact that its part of an approved and safe distributionOpinions are wonderful, but what I really need are facts.