If you’re interested in understanding why Flash Player was so problematic, read on to discover the saga of Flash Player.įor years, Flash Player has been a major vector for malware, and bogus Flash Player installers and updaters have served as Trojan horses to infect Macs and PCs.
When updating this article, we decided to leave the remainder as is, for historical reasons.
But you should no longer worry about Flash Player, no matter what websites tell you. Flash Player was long used to serve malware, on both macOS and Windows, because of the frequent updates needed to the software. Any supposed Flash Player update you see is malware. If you see something like that, DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE SOFTWARE. Yet you may still come across websites claiming that you need to update Flash Player, and offering to allow you to download it. And from January 12, 2021, Adobe has blocked Flash Player content from playing on computers where that software is installed. UPDATE: As of January 1, 2021, Flash Player is no longer supported. It is unclear whether that decision will affect preservation projects such as the Flash Games Preservation project.Software & Apps How to tell if an Adobe Flash Player update is valid It is unclear how that is achieved but a possibility is that Adobe could integrate a switch in Adobe Flash Player that prevents content from being executed in 2021. The company revealed as well that "Flash-based content will be blocked from running in Adobe Flash Player after the EOL date". Browser makers like Google or Microsoft will include these updates in their web browsers (as Flash is integrated natively in these browsers).įlash Player downloads will be removed from the Adobe website when support ends and Adobe discourages users from installing Flash Player from third-party download sites because it is no longer supported officially.
The company plans to release security updates for Adobe Flash Player until that date. Google or Mozilla, plan to remove support for Adobe Flash from their web browsers in late 2020 or early 2021.Īdobe set the date for support end to December 31, 2020.
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