What is Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX & Plugin 32-bit?

Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX & Plugin 32-bit is software application developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows XP with nearly 63.76% of installations running this operating system. Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX & Plugin 32-bit's installer is typically 16.00 MB in size and installs around 104 files. The most common release is 11.1.102.55 with 20.91% of all installations currently using this version.

Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX & Plugin 32-bit is most popular in Russia with 28.76% of installations residing in this country.

Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX & Plugin 32-bit adds 5 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX & Plugin 32-bit is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX & Plugin 32-bit?

Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX is a software application that enables users to view multimedia, Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio content within a web browser on a computer. This version of Flash Player is designed to run SWF files that are created with the Adobe Flash authoring tool, Adobe Flex, or other Macromedia and third-party tools. Flash Player is available as a freely downloadable plugin for recent versions of popular web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari, on selected platforms. Additionally, Google Chrome has integrated the player into its browser distribution. It is important to note that each version of the Flash Player plugin is backwards-compatible.

Software Behaviors

Services:

FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe runs as a service named 'AdobeFlashPlayerUpdateSvc' (AdobeFlashPlayerUpdateSvc) "This service keeps your Adobe Flash Player installation up to date with the latest enhancements and security fixes.".

Firewall:

FlashUtil32_12_0_0_44_Plugin.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\WINXP\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_12_0_0_44_Plugin.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

FlashUtil32_25_0_0_127_Plugin.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 3:27).
FlashUtil32_28_0_0_126_Plugin.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 01:17).
FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player Updater' (runs daily at 11:37).
FlashUtil32_20_0_0_286_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 1:01).
FlashUtil32_17_0_0_188_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 6:50 PM).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Adobe Flash Player Updater.

Registry entries:

FlashUtil32_15_0_0_223_Plugin.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'FlashUtil32_15_0_0_223_ActiveX.exe' and executes as C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_15_0_0_223_ActiveX.exe.

Registry entries (User):

FlashUtil32_28_0_0_126_Plugin.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'FlashPlayerUpdate' which loads as C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_28_0_0_126_pepper.exe -update pepperplugin.
FlashUtil32_25_0_0_127_Plugin.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'FlashPlayerUpdate' which loads as C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_25_0_0_127_ActiveX.exe -update activex.
FlashUtil32_20_0_0_286_pepper.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'FlashPlayerUpdate' which loads as C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_20_0_0_286_pepper.exe -update pepperplugin.
FlashUtil32_17_0_0_188_pepper.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'FlashPlayerUpdate' which loads as C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_17_0_0_188_pepper.exe -update pepperplugin.
FlashUtil32_17_0_0_169_Plugin.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'FlashPlayerUpdate' which loads as C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_17_0_0_169_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_17_0_0_134_Plugin.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'FlashPlayerUpdate' which loads as C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_17_0_0_134_Plugin.exe -update plugin.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.adobe.com

Support:

https://www.adobe.com/go/flashplayer_support

Installation path:

C:\Windows\System32\macromed\flash

Uninstaller:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Uninstall.exe -maintain

Size:

16.00 MB

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