What is Adobe Flash Player 18 NPAPI?

Adobe Flash Player 18 NPAPI is software application developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 50.91% of installations running this operating system. Adobe Flash Player 18 NPAPI's installer is typically 54.00 MB in size and installs around 647 files. The most common release is 18.0.0.232 with 40.31% of all installations currently using this version.

Adobe Flash Player 18 NPAPI is most popular in the United States with 42.13% of installations residing in this country.

Adobe Flash Player 18 NPAPI 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 10:21 AM).
FlashUtil32_19_0_0_185_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 7:26 PM).
FlashUtil32_18_0_0_209_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 1.39).
FlashUtil32_18_0_0_203_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 6:12 PM).
FlashUtil32_17_0_0_191_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 22:32).
FlashUtil32_17_0_0_190_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 08:28 p.m.).

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_19_0_0_245_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_19_0_0_245_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_19_0_0_226_ActiveX.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_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_19_0_0_185_pepper.exe -update pepperplugin.
FlashUtil32_19_0_0_185_ActiveX.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_ActiveX.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.
FlashUtil32_18_0_0_210_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_210_Plugin.exe -update plugin.