What is Adobe Flash Player 16 PPAPI?

Adobe Flash Player 16 PPAPI is software application developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 58.84% of installations running this operating system. Adobe Flash Player 16 PPAPI's installer is typically 48.00 MB in size and installs around 383 files. The most common release is 16.0.0.305 with 34.23% of all installations currently using this version.

Adobe Flash Player 16 PPAPI is most popular in the United States with 27.98% of installations residing in this country.

Adobe Flash Player 16 PPAPI adds 6 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

Software Behaviors

Services:

FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe runs as a service named 'AdobeFlashPlayerUpdateSvc' (AdobeFlashPlayerUpdateSvc) "Mit diesem Dienst ist Ihre Flash Player-Installation immer aktuell und verwendet die neuesten Verbesserungen und Sicherheits-Fixes.".

Scheduled tasks:

FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player Updater' (runs daily at 9:50 PM).
FlashUtil32_16_0_0_310_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 01:53).
FlashUtil32_16_0_0_305_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 6:07 PM).
FlashUtil32_16_0_0_296_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 2:35 AM).
FlashUtil32_16_0_0_257_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 01:51).
FlashUtil32_16_0_0_235_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 8:22 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_ActiveX.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_20_0_0_267_ActiveX.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_267_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_19_0_0_245_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_19_0_0_245_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_16_0_0_257_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_16_0_0_257_pepper.exe -update pepperplugin.
FlashUtil32_19_0_0_226_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_19_0_0_226_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_19_0_0_185_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_19_0_0_185_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_18_0_0_232_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_18_0_0_232_Plugin.exe -update plugin.