Adobe Flash Player Updates

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Running W10 1703. Understand the urgency of applying subject updates for security reasons. Just noted today that KB4287903 is available and recommended. I am controlling updates via metered connection, wushowhide, and CBB (365 days for feature and 30 days for quality updates). My question is should I wait the 30 days for Adobe updates to clear the 30-day hold and be offered for downloading/installation or is there a way to get them immediately?

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The FlashPlayer updates for Win10 are available through Windows Update. I recommend you go ahead and install the update that way. You can hide anything else for the time being.

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It doesn’t even show as an available Windows Updates since it is still within the 30-day deferral period. Once it clears that, then it will appear and I can apply it through normal procedure of NOT hiding it in wushowhide so that it will download and update. My question is how do I remove this one update from the 30-day CBB hold?

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Set metered connections. You could set quality updates to = 0 temporarily. Use wushowhide to hide everything else. Bu sure there is nothing else in the queue in WU. Undo metered connections and install the one update. Then you can set defer quality updates back to = 30.

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doneager wrote:

should I wait the 30 days for Adobe updates to clear the 30-day hold

As this month’s Flash update is a security update for an active zero-day vulnerability, I recommend you do follow @pkcano’s methods for getting the update as soon as possible. Depending on the browser you are using, you may prefer to install the update directly from Adobe (see AKB100002)

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This is WAY too confusing! I looked into both the recommended solutions: jury rig Windows Update and get directly from Adobe. Both ways seem exceedingly difficult to me. In the process, I found that I apparently have Flash Player disabled. So, do I even need to be concerned with this update at all?

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The only to get flash updates for IE and Edge in Win8.1/10 is through Windows Update. If you do not have the updates, those two browsers are vulnerable even if you do not use them because flash is built in and they are built in to Windows.

You may have Flash disabled for other browsers.

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I decided to try the alternative using Windows Update to get urgent updates. It didn’t work out as planned. I had to install a number of items that were unplanned and didn’t get two that I really needed. I think I either missed one or more steps or possible did the steps out of order. Not sure.

Anyway, the two updates that I really wanted KB4287903 and KB4103722, both approved by Woody, failed to download, even though they were listed on the Hide Updates listing from wushowhide. I think I didn’t check them so they wouldn’t be hidden, but not sure. They are NOT showing on the hidden list at this time. No idea what happened to them.

Of the items installed that I didn’t really want, one is believed to be critical, KB4023057. I understand that this messes with the update process. Don’t know why it installed. The hidden list still includes it. This item doesn’t show up when I click the uninstall link in Windows Update. Can I get rid of it somehow? The other items that installed that I didn’t want don’t seem to be causing any problems, at least not yet.

I have written a document which outlines step by step what I understand to be the correct procedure for downloading and installing updates which are priority exceptions to the normal hiding process, such as Adobe ones. Would like someone knowledgeable to review it, but can’t figure out how to attach the Word file here. Ideas or suggestions?

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You can uninstall KB4023057.

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Flash updates for IE/Edge and for NPAPI and PPAPI browsers can be obtained outside Windows Updates.  For Flash for IE/Edge on Windows 8.1/10 simply open the Microsoft Update Catalog https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Home.aspx.  Put in your search term (for Windows 10 1709), I put in “Flash Player 1709” and immediately got a list of all recent available downloads for Flash. This is how I update Flash on IE/Edge on my Windows 10 Pro computer.

For browsers such as Firefox and Opera use this Adobe page (ignore that it says for Windows 7 as it works fine Windows 8/10 also).  Scroll down to the section under “Still Having Problems?” and click on the appropriate download.  You can bookmark the ftp download links for Flash update for these browsers so you don’t have to visit that page again.

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The Microsoft link given above inadvertently ends with [ /Home.aspx.%C2%A0 ]. Copy/paste the link and delete all after [ aspx ] (from the period, on to the end).

Here are direct Adobe (yes, Macromedia is correct) links which someone posted a long time ago, along with my Bookmark labels in Firefox —

Flash FF:
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player.exe
Flash IE:
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_ax.exe
Flash Chrome:
http://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_ppapi.exe

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PaulK wrote:

Microsoft link given above inadvertently ends with [ /Home.aspx.%C2%A0 ].

That was an unintended consequence of the forum software – the link has now been formatted so the full-stop no longer gets confused with it.

As for your direct links, they are included in AKB1000003: Links to Flash update resources, along with other helpful Flash links 🙂

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