What is Adobe Flash Player Plugin?

Adobe Flash Player Plugin is software application developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 43.58% of installations running this operating system. Adobe Flash Player Plugin's installer is typically 2.00 MB in size and installs around 281 files. The most common release is 9.0.124.0 with 69.03% of all installations currently using this version.

Adobe Flash Player Plugin is most popular in the United States with 40.63% of installations residing in this country.

Adobe Flash Player 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 Plugin is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About Adobe Flash Player Plugin?

Adobe Flash Player is a versatile software solution designed for the seamless viewing of multimedia content, Rich Internet Applications, and streaming audio and video within web browsers on computer platforms. Known for its ability to run SWF files, which can be generated using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, or other third-party authoring tools, this plugin is made freely accessible to users as an add-on for modern web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari across select platforms. Notably, Google Chrome has also integrated Flash Player within its distribution. Moreover, each iteration of the software is designed to maintain its compatibility with older versions, ensuring a smooth and consistent user experience.

Software Behaviors

Services:

FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe runs as a service named 'AdobeFlashPlayerUpdateSvc' (AdobeFlashPlayerUpdateSvc) "Adobe Flash Player Update Service".

Firewall:

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 '{D33FA0E2-30FF-48D0-9630-17FA5E48D7C1}' (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):

NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'FlashPlayerUpdate' which loads as C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe -p.
FlashUtil10s_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\FlashUtil10s_ActiveX.exe -update activex.
GetFlash.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'FlashPlayerUpdate' which loads as C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\GetFlash.exe.
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.

Software Details

URL:

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

Support:

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

Installation path:

C:\Windows\System32\macromed\flash

Uninstaller:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\uninstall_plugin.exe

Size:

2.00 MB

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