[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Adobe Flash Removal

[Smita Desai]

Good point Bob. 

Would It help to manually remove from the registry? That does get tricky and good to back it up first.

 

Smita

 

 

From: Robert Primak <bobprimak at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Sunday, January 3, 2021 11:05 AM
To: Lexington Computer Group New Address Distribution <lctg at lists.toku.us>; Smita Desai <smitausa at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Adobe Flash Removal

 

Except, the updates only disable the main Flash Player components. Flash has so many tentacles so deeply embedded in Windows that a clean install of the OS without Flash components is about the only way you'll ever get rid of the risks of keeping these components (Zombies) on your device. At the very least, completely remove all third party web browsers and reinstall them and their extensions. This is almost as bad from a removal standpoint as Active-X, which is also deprecated and poses serious security threats if its Zombies are left in place. 

 

Mainstream Chrome Stable web browser still has Flash Player installed in it. Good luck getting rid of that, until they upgrade all of us to Chrome 88 Stable in a few weeks. Chrome 88 Beta has no Flash components baked in. Mainstream Firefox should already be fully Flash-free. But Firefox is a dying browser.

 

-- Bob Primak 

 

On Sunday, January 3, 2021, 10:55:06 AM EST, Smita Desai <smitausa at gmail.com <mailto:smitausa at gmail.com> > wrote: 

 

 

As of 12/31/2020, Adobe deprecated Flash Player. Below is the link to

various flavors of Windows 10 to apply the update to remove Flash. 

 

Separate steps may be needed to remove the add-in from the browser. 

 

 

 

http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/search.aspx?q=4577586

 

 

 

If you sort it by Windows column, would be easier to find the right flavor. 

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Smita

 

 

 

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