Lately almost every video on every site on any browser tells me I need to install the latest version of Flash Player. My wife's computer is doing the same thing. In IE11 I get a bar at the bottom of the screen that asks me if I want to install FP, I just close it and the video plays but it has become annoying. I don't know if it is a IE problem, a Windows problem, or a Adobe problem. I suspect it is an Adobe problem because it affects multiple browsers and I have installed updates and updated IE, my wife has not.
Is this happening to you and do you know a fix? I think the last FP update was to 11.9.something. I looked but could not find it to get the version. I did notice that last week it installed an "Addin" called airappinstaller.
So, is it just me? I can uninstall FP and reinstall but I have done that a couple of times to no effect.
 
Thanks for the help,
J

No one else having problems?
 
Any suggestions as to what I might try? I've never had this problem until the last few weeks.
Thanks again!
J

All I know is that you really need to make sure it's legitimate!  There's some malware going around that makes it look like you need to upgrade your Flash.

Yes. Heed the warning that Craig indicated. i did a recent re-install (Win-7) on one of my desktop PC's and did experience the popups regarding Flash Player installation (very annoying). I ignored them and eventually they went away. (Sorry for the non-solution).  I am currently using IE-11. But I would suggest also running a MalWare program such as MalWareBytes (maybe this is what stopped them from bothering me). I am also more than willing to upgrade to the latest Adobe Flash Player when I feel secure it is coming from Adobe itself.

Thanks craig.
 
Yes. Heed the warning that Craig indicated. i did a recent re-install (Win-7) on one of my desktop PC's and did experience the popups regarding Flash Player installation (very annoying). I ignored them and eventually they went away. (Sorry for the non-solution).  I am currently using IE-11. But I would suggest also running a MalWare program such as MalWareBytes (maybe this is what stopped them from bothering me). I am also more than willing to upgrade to the latest Adobe Flash Player when I feel secure it is coming from Adobe itself.
 
I always go to the Adobe site to download but you never know, I may have slipped up. I will delete all the Flash stuff I can find and go to the Adobe site and reinstall. Thanks you both for the help!!
 
J
 

I'll run Malwarebytes first... full scan

You can un-install Adobe Flash Player in Programs and Features in Control Panel just like any other program.
Are you sure you got the new one?
I remember having trouble downloading it, and right now I do not remember what it took to finally download it, perhaps it was anti-virus interfering but right now I am not sure. I go to the site and it would not download all the way, and I messed around for awhile before it finally did. Just can't remember right now what I did right now.
 

jbow
No one else having problems?
 
Any suggestions as to what I might try? I've never had this problem until the last few weeks.
Thanks again!
J

In W8, I'm not. But there are a few sites that have some spam, and they are littering your page with crap, and they say that you need to update the Flash Player, and if you click on it, it will take you to a page that my F-Secure immediately locks and says is not safe, and it is in Mexico!
 
Need to know more?
 
You can update the Flash Player directly from their website, and do not need any other place to tell you, btw! I use a web site to watch soccer games from Europe and that place has 25 updates for the Flash Player and they have numbers from 11 to 74999999, if you know what I mean!

Thanks Spacealf and Moshkaie. I did a full scan with Malwarebytes and it found three things. Interestingly one was called a Rogue.Multiple, it was GM_2011_Xmas_Freebie that Cake offered a while back. I suspect it just thought that it was malware but to be safe I deleted it anyway. The other two were CONDUIT related. I had managed to disable all the Conduit stuff, I had tried to delete it all kinds of ways and it would delete and come right back, I could stop it and it would just start itself again. I had managed to disable it using Administrative Settings and the registry but a couple of things were still there. I don't remember where I picked up Search Conduit, maybe while trying Chrome but I do know it is one of the most tenacious programs I have ever encountered. Hopefully it is GONE now. I deleted all three just to be sure. I may reinstall the GM_2011_Xmas_Freebie. IIRC, though I have not used it... maybe I should just leave it be. Have any of you encountered MWB telling you that a midi file pack or such is malware?
 
Going to delete Flash and Shockwave players now. You know I think I only recently got shockwave player.. maybe that is part of the problem, but why should it be? So.. of to delete and reinstall. OH, I installed the current/newest version more than once, delete and install using the Adobe site. Trying again. Norton always tells me the file is safe, so maybe it is something just trying to get me to install malware because whenever I am prompted to install FP, I just close the IE box and everything plays. I hope this works. Maybe my mouse wandered too far out into the under web brush.
 
Thanks to all...
J

In Control Panel/programs etc... I have several Adobe products. The first one is Adobe Air, I am not sure where I got that or if there is a program that is dependent on it.
So I have installed:
Adobe Air
Adobe Flash Player 11 Active X
Adobe Reader X (10.1.8)
Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5
Adobe Shockwave Player 12
 
I will uninstall SWP 11.5 for sure I don't know what to do with Adobe Air, I am thinking that it came with something that I will need it for, maybe X3. Maybe it came with XLN because I know I have not had it for very long.
 
Thanks,
Julien