What is Adobe Flash Player 9 Plugin?

Adobe Flash Player 9 Plugin is software application developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 56.30% of installations running this operating system. Adobe Flash Player 9 Plugin's installer is typically 13.00 MB in size and installs around 214 files. The most common release is 9.0.45.0 with 92.71% of all installations currently using this version.

Adobe Flash Player 9 Plugin is most popular in the United States with 32.19% of installations residing in this country.

Adobe Flash Player 9 Plugin adds 2 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 9 Plugin is known to create 2 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About Adobe Flash Player 9 Plugin?

Adobe Flash is a versatile multimedia platform designed to enhance web pages with animation, video, and interactive features. Widely utilized for advertisements, games, and broadcast animations, Adobe Flash Player enables the seamless viewing of multimedia, Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio on both computer web browsers and supported mobile devices. The software is available as a plugin for various web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari, with Google Chrome now integrating the player into its distribution. Additionally, each version of the plugin is designed to be backwards-compatible, ensuring a seamless user experience across platforms and devices.

Software Behaviors

Services:

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

Firewall:

FlashPlayerPlugin_12_0_0_77.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashPlayerPlugin_12_0_0_77.exe'.
FlashPlayerPlugin_11_8_800_94.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashPlayerPlugin_11_8_800_94.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{69AE0A68-CF52-4CA4-A21E-2EC3AC10C83E}' (runs on registration).
FlashUtil32_11_9_900_117_ActiveX.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{F0CB7E66-C557-40E2-9413-E47A76FF32E3}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

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

Registry entries (User):

FlashUtil32_14_0_0_179_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_14_0_0_179_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_14_0_0_145_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_14_0_0_145_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_14_0_0_125_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_14_0_0_125_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_13_0_0_214_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_13_0_0_214_ActiveX.exe -update activex.
FlashUtil32_13_0_0_206_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_13_0_0_206_ActiveX.exe -update activex.
FlashUtil32_13_0_0_182_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_13_0_0_182_Plugin.exe -update plugin.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.adobe.com

Support:

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

Installation path:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\

Uninstaller:

MsiExec.exe /X{61E8B062-51F9-4BBB-B1FC-E2A4A40944F5}

Size:

13.00 MB

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